Thanks for letting me know what you liked about my snap, Jill. Watch
for "More Chairs" next week. Brecht didn't exactly choreograph a dance
with chairs, but his contribution to a 1961 group exhibition at the Martha
Jackson Gallery was to place 3 different chairs in scattered areas of the
space. When viewers entered the gallery they had no idea that the chairs
were part of an artwork, and some sat on them, much to George Brecht's
pleasure. As he later noted in an interview, "The difference between a
chair by Duchamp and one of my chairs could be that Duchamp's chair is on a
pedestal and mine can still be used." You can find another Brechtian chair
work revived within the UBUWEB at:
http://www.ubu.com/concept/brecht_chair.html
And I enjoy this photo of still another chair piece from the early sixties
by George Brecht:
http://www.gagosian.com/artists/georgebrecht/?mode=work&eid=289
Barry
On Thu, 9 Feb 2006 09:45:29 +1100, Jill Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Hi Barry,
>
>Enjoyed this. Especially the last line, and the time/music connection.
>
>And if music, then there's a dance with chairs?
>
>Best,
>Jill
>
>
>On Wednesday, February 8, 2006, at 12:33 PM, Barry Alpert wrote:
>
>> CHAIRS
>>
>> [via Brecht (George):
>> “There is so little to do,
>> and so much time to do it in.”]
>>
>> ‘I think being born is one of the great fictions,
>> hence
>> I allow myself
>> to reinvent
>> my birth-place
>> & time whenever
>> anyone asks me.’
>>
>> Brecht sits the world down and
>> of course if the essential part of music is time,
>> then all things that take place in time
>> could conceivably be music.
>>
>> Experiential time can become the perceptual situation
>> and stimulate the structural faculty
>> of the time-keeper.
>>
>> You can’t avoid arranging.
>>
>>
>> Barry Alpert / Silver Spring, MD US / 2-7-06 (8:33 PM)
>>
>>
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