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This sort of cancellation party, Barry, I would think to be extremely popular in these Covid times. Guest lists could be expanded. No necessity even to be alive to be invited. Music by John Cage and his ilk. Cars could be pre-parked around the block and walked away from. Fireworks somehow retreat from the sky. Bill On Thu, 28 May 2020 at 8:33 pm, Barry Alpert < [log in to unmask]> wrote: > 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: > > >I’m still a teenager in my head in some ways, Patrick. The stanza about > >current times was inserted after I had finished the first draft. > > > >As for panties your head may have been still running with the material in > >your own snap. > > > >Bill > > > >On Wed, 27 May 2020 at 5:19 pm, Patrick McManus < > >[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > >> Bill thanks although I misread the title as panties! > >> > >> enjoyed but maybe for me I thought first of your teenage parties of long > >> ago then suddenly it's today -maybe I misread cheers P > >> > >> never heard of a turn an Oz thing? > >> > >> 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 > >> > > >> > > ######################################################################## > > ######################################################################## > > To unsubscribe from the POETRYETC list, click the following link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=POETRYETC&A=1 > > This message was issued to members of www.jiscmail.ac.uk/POETRYETC, a > mailing list hosted by www.jiscmail.ac.uk, terms & conditions are > available at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/ > ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the POETRYETC list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=POETRYETC&A=1 This message was issued to members of www.jiscmail.ac.uk/POETRYETC, a mailing list hosted by www.jiscmail.ac.uk, terms & conditions are available at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/