Yet More Food for Thought from those prototypical performance artistes, the Situationists:
- The church has already burnt the so-called witches to repress the primitive ludic tendencies conserved in popular festivities. Under the existing dominant society, which produces the miserable pseudo-games of non-participation, a true artistic activity is necessarily classed as criminality. It is semi-clandestine. It appears in the form of scandal.
So what really is the situation? It's the realisation of a better game, which more exactly is provoked by the human presence. The revolutionary gamesters of all countries can be united in the S.I. to commence the emergence from the prehistory of daily life.
In the mood?
- Visit a truly splendid Situationist site -- perfume!, by Josefina Ayerza, NYC psychoanalyst and editor of the journal, lacanian ink.
- Check out Jacques Lacan, who asks, fervently, "What is the Thing - Das Ding?"
- Delve into the mind (and estate) of one of America's premiere pranksters, Timothy Leary.
Whistle Whilste You Work
A situation without a theme song is no situation atoll. The Band is listening to:
- Ornette Coleman's Ornette Coleman Double Quartet Free Jazz
- Frank Zappa, Apostrophe
- and some funky little ditty called "Aguas de Marco" by Cibo Matto off the album, Super Relax. Dunno. Sounds Brazilian to me.
Your Humble Chronicler made the mistake of offhandedly commenting on the eclectic flavor of these selections, and was promptly greeted with the following Handwritten Musical Demands:
- Louis Armstrong : Hot Fives Vol. 1 (CD)
Miles Davis : Kind Of Blue (CD)
Miles Davis : Birth Of The Cool (CD)
Dave Brubeck : Time Out (CD)
Joe Jackson : Vol. 2-Night & Day (CD)
John Coltrane : Giant Steps (CD)
Thelonious Monk : Brilliant Corners (CD)
Bill Evans : Original Jazz Classic Jazz (CD)
Pat Metheny : Still Life (Talking) (CD)
Monk/Coltrane : Thelonious With John (CD)
Dexter Gordon : Quartet: 1955-1967 (CD)
....sounds like somebody's been watching Ken Burns videos..........
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