![]() ![]() how are architecture and painting different? because you can "throw it off a high building." (cut piece) i want to re-read this whole thing more carefully, as it really does work as an instruction guide on re-creation from genre to genre, which possibly purifies the work at hand.Īs an artist, i can sense the guts and imagination it took to dream up this book. how are dance and event different? not so much, if the instructions boil down to witnessing and walking. the reader is thus being taught to see more clearly the resonances between genres and the differences. ![]() On an aesthetic/technical level, the work is itself a collage, piecing together these different instructions on genre art. (so eerily useful for the current collage story i'm working through.) "Break your mirror and scatter the pieces/over different countries./Travel and collect the pieces and glue them together again." (Collecting PIece III) some sections felt long-almost too many thought experiments for me to really sit with, digest-but i loved the rollercoaster feel of all these ways of finding art in the world, especially in broken things. On an emotional level, the work goes back and forth between being heartbreaking, exhilarating, and frustrating. cut out from a film those images you hate. wait on stage for the audience to snip away your dress. in its elliptical language, the book is deceptively simple, challenging you to go past your comfort zone with art. in its range, the book is truly democratic, imagining all the possibilities for experiencing and creating art in so many ways. it is sectioned into 9 "chapters" or so that instruct you on how to create an art piece in a particular genre: music/painting/poetry/event//object/dance/film/etc. almost a declaration of artistic independence. What an unorthodox and brilliant book-cross-genre in the truest sense-and so liberating. Then stop caring and read something else. Then feel bad for feeling elitist and snobby. Have pride in the fact that you only want to be published when your writing deserves it. Have pride in the fact you don’t want to ever be published by fact of your being an anti-celebrity or the spouse of a celebrity. ![]() Briefly fantasize that because it has your notes and drawings in it that it will one day be valuable because you will one day be a published writer-but published because of merit rather than reputation. Pull it out when your friends are over and you are all drunk. Let it collect dust (the ultimate violence to books). Then stop thinking because you’ve wasted enough time thinking about this already and you’ve got more important things to do.ĭon’t do Yoko the pleasure of burning this book like she requests. Think you’re just cranky and too serious. Stop trying because you hate it and you will always hate it. Try to like it because you respect your professor and her reading list and she’s obviously assigning this for a reason. Don’t care about not being perceived as cool or smart because you absolutely abhor this book. Think about hipsters who pretend to like things they don’t actually like because it makes them look cool or smart. Think about how people automatically believe when something is strange and/or they don’t understand it, that it is by default genius. Be surprised, but not surprised to see it has an average rating of 4+ stars. Then start again because maybe you’ll get it this time. Take that thought back and stop reading again. Decide you believe in fate and that things worked out for the best. Wonder about how things might have been different. Don’t care to figure it out because you can’t translate crazy.įeel bad for John Lennon. Think about the fact that each page probably means something. Then remember you’re not insane.īriefly think about how these instructions aren’t meant to be taken literally, how it’s an expression, a form of art. Then continue reading anyways because it’s assigned. But refuse to continue reading for that reason. Talk about how Yoko broke up the Beatles and killed John Lennon. Read out loud with a coworker at your place of business. Use no less than three different colored pens to do this. Logically prove them false, nonsensical, or even harmful. In most of the notes, draw from your knowledge of physics, astronomy, psychology, sociology, and rationality to deconstruct the instructions. Laugh with a coworker about the word whimsical. See the word “whimsical” on the back cover. Don’t care you spent too much money because you think this book will make you a better person. Instructions for obtaining, reading, and disposing of Grapefruitīuy this book on amazon with two others for free s&h. ![]()
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