Enzo,
Look at this glorious ramble will you, that I got in response to my party
piece!
Cheers,
Bill
On Thu, 28 May 2020 at 8:33 pm, Barry Alpert <
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> Bill, I can enjoy parties if they become their own work of performance
> art. Here'a one staged deliberately by Elaine Sturtevant in NYC in 1967 for
> an audience which she knew would include Marcel and Teeny Duchamp.
> "Emphatically and early on, the artist demonstrated that leap to concept
> with her Relâche, for which she staged a “cancellation” of a performance as
> the performance—a repetition of Picabia and Satie’s notorious eponymous
> 1924 “ballet,” which on the night of its announced opening kept the theater
> shut tight. Having enjoyed the resulting brouhaha from the relative calm of
> a nearby bar with Picabia and Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp himself (who appeared
> in René Clair’s Entr’acte, the cinematic component of the crucially
> multimedia revolt that bisected the theatrical goings-on) attended
> Sturtevant’s 1967 performance by approaching and then strolling away from
> the poster pasted on the venue’s door (STURTEVANT’S RELÂCHE) while keeping
> his taxi waiting. As [Jill]Johnston wrote of the serious fun the artist was
> producing: “It was a total success. A cancellation can’t go wrong.” . . .
> the fission of the Sturt-event and its aftershocks weren’t lost on Duchamp.
> The latter was, after all, no arriviste to thinking madly about territories
> opened up by cancellation: cancellation not as negation but as perpetual
> splitting and ricochet, everything released back into the flux of becoming.
> The sly old respirateur sent Sturtevant a note not long after her 1967
> “theatrical,” acknowledging that when he returned to Manhattan the
> following October “maybe . . . you will be announcing ‘Relâche 1968.’”
> Barry Alpert
>
> On Wed, 27 May 2020 18:51:43 +1000, Bill Wootton <
> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> >> On 26/05/2020 22:29, Bill Wootton wrote:
> >> > A party used to be called a do.
> >> >
> >> > What do you do at a party? Chat,
> >> >
> >> > drink, flirt, dance... Da do doo ron?
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > A party used also to be called a turn.
> >> >
> >> > What turns? You, maybe, as you swirl?
> >> >
> >> > Or your behaviour, not at work or home.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > A party sets you a-part,
> >> >
> >> > adrift from customary habits.
> >> >
> >> > Your job now is to socialise.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Parties were the best fun
> >> >
> >> > before food got involved.
> >> >
> >> > Eating was cheating back in the day.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Food should be incidental at a party
> >> >
> >> > or spontaneously called for, late,
> >> >
> >> > music and laughter the cravings to satisfy.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Parties these days are verboten.
> >> >
> >> > The very idea of clamour is fading.
> >> >
> >> > Music has lost a dimension.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Good parties gathered their own
> >> >
> >> > momentum, created circumstances
> >> >
> >> > for doing and turning.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > May they yet re-turn.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > bw
> >> >
> >> >
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