Owen wrote:
>I think that Sol is correct that it does relate to Dick's ideas about
Intermedia, but it is also more than this - I think that it is more
closely related to the mindset that Dick suggested as being part of
living/acting/working in an intermedial space<
I think for that generation of experimental artists who began working in the
late fifties such work was about a new way of seeing the world and thus a
new mentality......their work still seems truly different today. That's part
of the link to Cage....Cage was trying to hear differently, hence his
interest in silence as an integral component of music/sound. Silence is to
music what zero is to the set of natural numbers, in other words it is a
bedrock on which other structures are built.
Not so much about one single new mentality but about the mentality that
breaks down old pre-conceptions, opening the mind to different forms of
thought. getting the cobwebs out from between your ears and the ears of your
friends. ;-)
Thanks Owen for adding the bit about living it, after all it's all about no
difference between art and everyday life..that's the new mentality also.
Your receipts are part of that. No longer just a bit of paper but an
artifact of the exchange which it documents and thus you extended the idea
and considered what else that signified in the hope of proving your own
existence. Now if you could just formulate that mathematically... I remember
when I first saw the proof of "2+2=4".....5 pages!......perhaps not the new
mentality but feeling new mentally......incidents of mental novelty.........
cheers,
Sol.
