Reed Altemus wrote: >Josh, >I'd LOVE to see an original definition of conceptual art. >Send it to me! Sorry, the mysterious Kraagink (sounds like a title to a Xenakis piece, n'est-pas?) won the index card. Maybe he/she will be kind enough to share it with the list when they get it (or maybe, in parallel to my short short story that is being passed around (who has it now?), they will modify the index card and send it to someone else for further modication...) A poet friend of mine just sent me some defintions, she couldn't track down who devised them: INSTALLATION ART: 1. Room that you would not normally enter without a hard hat. 2. Amusement parks minus the amusement. 3. Poorly-made structures that exist to justify a manifesto. 4. Where the vacuous and the indignant conspire to depict the obvious. PERFORMANCE ART: When a person of limited talents, who can neither write, act, sing, dance nor play a musical instrument, stands in front of an audience of limited sense and fails at all five endeavors at once. Well, I guess that teaches us! >BTW I'm reading Lawrence Durell's The Black Book now. Can I participate >in yr Durell project? NO! Ok, I guess. Send me your postal address, and I will send you a list of 39 words that appear in Durrell's Nunquam. Your mission: compose a new text using the 39 words (in order preferably) that (preferably) tells a story or is instructional in some way (i.e. prose) (but be creative) (and have fun) (and be brilliant) (oh just forget the rules, ok?). I have started to read the Black Book twice in the past 15 years. I can't get past the first dozen pages. I even own it, and it has sat paitently on my shelves through 10 different apartments, waiting to fulfill its destiny. I could never get into his quartet of books or the quintet. I really wanted to read them. By the way, there is a Henry Flynt tape for sale at http://www.anomalous.com It is from the mid-80s, and on it Flynt plays violin. I think it is $15. If there are any Henry Flynt fans, you might want to be aware of this.... -Josh Ronsen http://www.nd.org/jronsen --== Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ ==-- Before you buy.
