Thanks for providing this link, Roger. I was unaware of the Vienna
Vegetable Orchestra. Clicking on the video option within their website
yielded a quite stimulating aesthetic experience in the Cagean tradition.
Alison Knowles and Dick Higgins, who studied with Cage himself, once
prepared a dinner for me as a subtle, unannounced performance. I regularly
extrapolate from Alison Knowles' and Philip Corner's performances in
everyday life, "The Identical Lunch", and recently elicited the fascist
tendency barely beneath the surface of a nearby Israeli grocery and falafel
stand with my repeated "action", as Joseph Beuys might term it.
Contrast that with the reactionary use of Shakespeare by the W(ORST) empire:
http://www.shakespeareinamericancommunities.org/newsroom/
Related to the change in terminology at the Library of Congress
from "Consultant in Poetry" to "Poet Laureate". British "opium of the
masses" guaranteed to make a higher percentage of the audience nod out.
Barry
On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 00:01:33 +0000, Roger Day <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>the ballet for artichokes reminded me of this:
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>http://www.gemueseorchester.org/
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