"Maybe I'm wrong but ..."
Wrong? There is no right or wrong in something like that! If you want to rescore
those works in a way that you like then you can do it. who can stop you or tell
you it is wrong? NOBODY! Just do it man!
You have my personal blessing,
Cecil
Sol Nte wrote:
> Hi Friedemann,
>
> You wrote:
>
> >We are going to perform Yves Klein's "sinfonie monochrome" here in
> Stuttgart
> (Germany) and are looking for a score. I have only a very small und unsharpe
> photo and we'd need to know some closer details.<
>
> It is just one note but I don't know what other directions may have been
> present on the score
> a description exists at
>
> http://members.aol.com/mindwebart3/page2.htm
>
> BTW - aren't these performances involving naked women just a little sexist,
> or is it just me who thinks that. Notice the men at these things are always
> fully clothed. Ben Patterson's "Lick Piece" is a similar example of such an
> outmoded art attitude within the Fluxus tradition. Maybe I'm wrong but I
> think that it would be interesting to re-interpret such pieces either where
> everyone is so fully clothed to the point of suffocation ( e.g all
> performers wear three coats) or where the men are naked and the women
> dressed in dinner jackets. This way you could do something new which also
> offers further reflection on some of the excessively macho aspects of
> sixties conceptual art. Of course you're all consenting adults and can do
> what you like but I think all too often such performances lead to mere
> voyeurism. Some role reversal could be interesting, certainly events by
> female artists such as Carolee Schneemann's "Meat Joy" (this springs to mind
> because men and women are in equal states of undress) do not suffer from
> such inequalities between the sexes.
>
> Anyhow that's my fourpenneth/two cents,
>
> cheers,
>
> Sol.
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