The Belgian video artists in this exhibition had fun performing, conceptualizing funny
performances by individuals other than themselves, and generating fun within the
audience which attended the exhibition. Curiously enough, the curators produced only
about 300 elusive words by way of explanation, rather than a millstone.
www.american.edu/cas/katzen/museum/2008nov_onthaasting.cfm
Barry Alpert
On Mon, 8 Dec 2008 17:27:38 +1100 Max Richards posted:
Will Self in firstpost online...
It's like this friend of mine who's been trying to write The History of Fun for
the past decade or so. It goes without saying that fun, of its very nature, is a
state of mind that's atemporal, and therefore a history of it is a contradiction
in terms; but beyond this there's the inescapable feeling that this, of all
books, should be the one blurbed: "You'll
have as much fun reading it as it's author did writing it!" Whereas, the truth is
that writing about fun has proved nothing but a millstone around the poor man's
neck, and at times he's verged on the suicidal.
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