I like 'awkward fun' Mairead.
An aside - I am a reader I am a reader I am a reader. MacLow has
nearly always worked for me - whatever the reader is that I am, MacLow
can make him read. Andrews only engages my reader spasmodically, my
reader gets a little thrill out of this bit and that bit and maybe
those bits down there, but most of it blurs into boredom. Mind, I
haven't tried my reader on him for quite a while - we need to be in
the same place at the same time.
Tim A.
On 4 Apr 2010, at 00:20, mairead byrne wrote:
> I also am very interested in putting the reader at the hart of my
> poetic practice though, temperamentally I got to say, it's not
> easy. I was very interested in what Bruce Andrews
> said about MacLow. At a reading in Brown University a few years
> ago, MacLow (performing with Caroline Bergvall that night) asked
> people from the audience to perform his work. I just volunteered on
> principle! We didn't know what we would be doing until we did it.
> By inviting people from the audience on stage MacLow by definition
> incorporated the audience in his work.
> I'm not sure if the work appropriated the audience or vice versa.
> It was awkward fun, with Forrest Gander and maybe a Waldrop or two
> and students and maybe Michael Gizzi and me all more or less gladly
> making fools of ourselves. And of course what I most remember is my
> body on stage, with the others. I think Jeffrey said something
> about a painter's materials being of little interest compared to the
> painting produced. I'm actually more interested in the materials /
> mostly interested in the materials. And it was fun to be one of
> MacLow's materials for a while, a self-conscious remembering one.
> Mairéad
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