TALK DAVE HICKEY [simultaneously]
“I’m slightly wounded”
Then I had to go to a formal occasion;
all issues
like race horses with provenance,
kosher thing begins to lose its influence.
Done to you,
a tough crusty American flag painted
village, even though ideas mushy and destructive.
Elevator by yourself.
Hundreds & thousands of artists all deserving of support.
In this one small aspect America is wrong.
Complain about it and there’s no way I can imagine [panelists]
know a work of art if they fell into it.
Every city has an Elm Street.
You pay a price for that normalization.
Barry Alpert / Silver Spring MD US / 2-17-10 (2:53 PM)
I attempted to write both an intuitive text and an acrostic sonnet while listening to Dave
Hickey's lecture "The Evils of Creationism: Art History According to Darwin". Though
immediately afterwards I felt I had drafted something publishable, I knew the revision
process would be arduous and wasn't sure both works could be realized. My early
editorial notes complain of being forced by the needs of the acrostic to choose language
which was hard to work with while the needs of the intuitive text limited outtakes.
Here's the earlier work, posted 2 weeks ago, for comparison:
TALK DAVE HICKEY
Violate the canons of the culture.
I won’t want you to go home & tell your friends
he was bleeding.
I’m a stone (sharon) . . . I made that up.
Works of art in their idiosyncrasy & outrageousness,
pioneered by people with a taste for disorientation . . .
They hate it! I want it!
Seeking out anxiety is a very un-American thing to do.
Then I had to go to a formal occasion.
If a church doesn’t teach ethics, it might as well be Toys R Us.
I was a little bit long--I got discouraged--I was bleeding.
We moved from incredibly ugly to incredibly silly.
I don’t think that what lives on the street is the best,
but it’s the strongest.
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