"excerpts from 'assemblages, environments & happenings" alan kaprow in "happenings and other acts" a compilation of texts edited by mariellen r. sandford -routledge- 1995 first published p. 239-240 chao ...pez At 09:29 am -0600 2/11/00, cecil touchon wrote: >That was very good Pez! What was the source? >cecil > >"narvis & ...pez" wrote: > >> "in the near future, plans may be developed which take >> their cue from games and atlhetics, where the regulations >> provide for a variety of moves that make the outcome always uncertaint. a >> score might be written, so general in its >> instructions that it could be adapted to basic types >> of terrain such as oceans, woods, cities, farms,; and to basic >> kind of performers such as teenagers, old people, children, >> matrons, and so on, including insects, animals and the weather. this could >> be printed and mail-ordered for use by anyone who wanted it. greorge brecht >> has been interested in such posibilities for some time now. his sparse >> scores read like this: >> >> DIRECTION >> Arrange to observe a sign >> indicating direction of travel. >> >> ¬ travel in the indicated direction >> >> • travel in another direction >> >> "but so far they have been distributed to friends, who perform them at >> their discretion and without ceremony, certainly they are aware of the >> pholosophic allusions to zen buddhism, of the subtle wit and childlike >> simplicity of the activites indicated. most of all, they are aware of the >> responsability it places on the performer to make something of the >> situation or not. as we mentioned before in connection with another of >> brecht's pieces, this implications its the most radical potential in all of >> the work discussed in this book. beyond a small group of initiates, there >> are few who could derive pleasure from going ahead and doing them without >> self-cosciousness. in the case of those happenings with more detailed >> instructions or more expanded action, the artist must be present at every >> moment , directing and participating , for the tradition is too young for >> the complete stranger to know what to do with such plans if he got them." >> (alan kaprow) >> >> At 10:16 am -0600 1/11/00, cecil touchon wrote: >> Three Aqueous Events >> ice >> water >> steam >> >> George Brecht 1961 >> >> That the simplicity of it causes literally any action that includes >>these three >> states of water to be a variation on his work. That's kind of like >>staking off >> wilderness, one stake in each of its four corners, and saying that >>because you >> have placed these four stakes anything that happens within them is >>trespassing. >> Hogwash! > >-- >.<.<.<.<.<.<.0.>.>.>.>.>.> >Join the Collage Poetry group >mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >a list for posting and reading poetry >created in a constructive manor >like a collage. >.<.<.<.<.<.<.0.>.>.>.>.>.>
