Sheila, thanks for your nice comment. sure we all want to 'be someone' in a positive sense.. though very quickly turns into its mocking, just as sure, and we become the prisoner of ourself. yes,. you see i can be very banal... if you write to yourself the 'being someone' isn't necessary, but again, one writes to be read to some degree, so maybe another fooling, so then, the base can be understanding or communication maybe, though i'm sure the border is fuzzy all the way...
thanks again, Bjørn 2007/2/16, Sheila Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
This is quite an intriguing sequence of notes, Bjorn. Grasp and release figure prominently in the exploration of "smart" and "stupid" and the inside and outside. thanks a lot for posting this. Sheila On 2/16/07, Bjørn Magnhildøen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > just looked thorugh the wayback machine > by coincidence found my notes from this talk > -bjørn > if you're not sure you have to keep hold it > but if you're sure you can let it go > > - > > Alan Kaprow talk > Astrup-Fearnley Museum, Sun 17.02.02. > A very down-to-earth exposition from "the founder of happening". > Just some mental notes: "This is a problem ... why should I come here > to talk about art? ... Because he was a friend ... In the beginning my > problem was that I liked art things but at the same time couldn't care > less ... So I started doing environments and happenings as they came > to be known ... It was a difficult time, I lost many artist friends > because of it ... Installation and performance is something completely > different from environments and happenings - the former two being > artist centered and within the usual art context, while the latter two > isn't about art at all ... It took me 20-30 years to free myself from > art ... If people ask me about art I run away - goodbye, goodbye ... > People have these, like, bubbles around them, sometimes they are > small, like when there's some intimacy and personal contact between > people, and sometimes big, like when aggressive, maybe hostile ... at > the workshop the students practiced this approaching each other while > keeping eyecontact ... What I tell them is - to be stupid ... In the > society we're supposed to be smart ... Stupidity can be nice ... Play > around with culture ... Like the rules for handshaking ... I found > that the rule was shaking 1.5 times ... Try to pump 3-5 times and > you'll see strange things happen ... I've practiced pumping up to 20 > times ... Art student worry, I tell him to be stupid ... Can art > change society? I quote John Cage: How to improve the world: you will > only make things worse ... I'm always asked for comments on art ... I > look at the Kiefer paintings in this room and what can I say? I like > them ... My relation to fluxus? We were friends, but the fluxus chef > George Maciunas and I hated each other so I was not part of it ... >
