(belated) thanks for the suggestions. 'Plastic' I'd appreciate a link for -
the others I've come across as I was foraging for other things. No, would
you believe, I haven't yet been to the Lowry - I may be struggling to block
out an image of it's being full of matchstalk men and matchstalk dogs and
cats - though I did go to Tate Modern yesterday and was well impressed. Out
of many notions that struck me while there the idea that modern, 'cutting
edge', experimental art can be funny - laugh-with funny, not laugh-at - e.g.
Fluxus,
and an installation called OTTOshaft by an artist called Gary Hill which
features (among other things) a video of two guys in full Scottish
militaria - kilts, busbies, the works - running franticly through the
antiseptic fluorescent tube-lit spaces of a modern office building.
Hysterical. I've been trying to think of any, for want of a better word,
postmodern poetry that explores similar areas and come up empty so far. Any
ideas?
Dave
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