Well, my roommate and i had gone to the DMA just to poke around,
and we ended up seeing the way things go and somehow or other I guess it was
the first day and there was a private opening but we snuck in and like good
artists
just pretended to be important art people though we were none other than
two stumble-bum students. We immediately could tell the artists weren';t having
a
good time so we went up to them and said something like "Where's all the
WHISKEY?"
and this made them laugh, so then we started talking to them. and they said
nobody
would show them around town, and that they wanted to go see some cows and buy
cowboy hats and boots but nobody would do it or something.
I don't know why we didnt take them. I can't remember but i think somebody
important from the museum
came up and stole them from us. We just ate a bunch of free food and bolted
after that.
I really miss the DMA sometimes. It was a very decent museum, and I had a
contact
there so every once in awhile I could get into the basement and poke around.
The guy that would sneak me in was a nut. He would always tell me about these
schemes
of his to rob the museum etc, but not to steal anything, just hide things in
the museum etc.
One of the funniest things about the DMA is that the big red nail in the main
gallery
actually goes through the floor. Nobody ever sees it, but I have. In the
basement it
comes right through the ceiling. Not much of a story really.
----- Original Message -----
From: "mwp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2005 4:23 PM
Subject: Re: "The Way Things Go"
Those guys fascinate me. Tell me more about the meeting!
M
Here's an interesting statement of theirs referring to the film that I took
from someplace a while ago (I forget
where):
βAn unambiguously CORRECT result of experiments exists; this is obtained when
it works, when this construction
collapses. Then again, there is a BEAUTIFUL which ranks above the CORRECT; this
is obtained when it's a close shave or
the construction collapses the way we want it to β slowly and intricately, that
is, a beautiful collapse. The
aesthetic layer on top of a function is like the butter on a sandwich β rather
thin and smooth. The wrong result is
obtained when things get going of their own accord, and the wrong result is
obtained when they don't get going at all.
The CORRECT range (which in terms of moral theology might also be called GOOD)
is, in our view, incredibly narrow.
Similarly, GOOD and EVIL are often very close, for example when the candle on
the swing sets fire to the detonating
fuse. Because they are nice and childish, the candle and the swing tend towards
the good, whereas the detonating fuse
is evil because you don't need it for harmless things. On the other hand, every
object in our installation is good if
it functions, because it then liberates its successor, gives it the chance of
development. Not destructive in that
sense.'
Fischli/Weiss
On Jul 21, 2005, at 4:06 PM, Lanny Quarles wrote:
If you haven't ever seen Fischli and Weiss' 1987 film
"The Way Things Go" I highly recommend it. I had the pleasure of meeting
them once. It was in Dallas, They're Swiss, and they kept asking us if we could
take them
to buy cowboy hats and boots. The film is available (ulp) at amazon for about
13 bucks.
One of the best actor free films you'll ever see. Film as Sculpture, Sculpture
as
Film.
or here's a clip:
http://www.tcfilm.ch/pop_lauf1e.htm
