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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: > >http://www.gemueseorchester.org/