From: orlando <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: 10 October 1999 23:28
Subject: Re: performance
| Yes, the image of _the programme being executed_ during poetry performance
| is fertile if we consider the role of the audience as active. The audience
| knows things and makes connections. Seen in this light, Steve's metaphor
| ceases to be mechanistic and becomes an example of interactivity and
| subjectivity with the performance being affected by the audience and the
| audience reading the the meaning according to the _knowledge_ they bring
to
| the performance.
which might remind us that the distinction between the mechanistic and the
non-mechanistic is not hard and fast
unrelated thought - I once wrote a poem in my outputs - little dramas - with
Den Angie and Charon -
unrelated thought - Bob Hope (a comedian before the advent of the modern
age) had a joke that went The President became so heated about automation
today that he had to be switched off for 3 hours
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