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Why I’m reading
Found via looking deeper into Dieter Roth’s poetry machine, which was a punctured black sheet to be placed over other pages, revealing a chance poem.
Cage 45’ For A Speaker –
Eventually everything will be happening at once: nothing behind a screen unless a screen happens to be in front. It will increasingly be a thump instead of a bang. The thing to do is to gather up one’s ability to respond and go on at varying speeds.
The thing to do is to keep the head alert, but empty. Things come to pass, arising and disappearing. There can be no consideration of error. Things are always going wrong.
Art Yard - Walter De Maria
Broken Kilometer and Earth Room
Made the Broken Kilometer in NYC.
Lakin also says that the sculpture “takes on a rhythmic order akin to musicality,” and Dilworth notes “as you pace in front of them they appear to vibrate and dance, like a radiant bed of scrupulous moray eels.”
Made the New York Earth Room
I have been thinking about an art yard I would like to build. It would be sort of a big hole in the ground. Actually, it would be a hole to begin with. It would have to be dug. The digging of the hole would be part of the art. Luxurious stands would be made for the art lovers and spectators to sit in.
They would come to the making of the yard dressed in Tuxedoes and clothes which would make them aware of the significance of the event they would see. Then in front of the stand of people a wonderful parade of steam shovels and bulldozers will pass. pretty soon the steam shovels would start to dig. And small explosions would go off. mat wonderful art will be-produced. Inexperienced people like La Monte Young will run the steam shovels. From here on out what goes on can’t easily be said. (It is hard to explain art). As the yard gets deeper and its significance grows, people will run into the yard, grab shovels, do their part, dodge explosions. This might be considered the first meaningful dance. People will yell ‘Get that bulldozer away from my child Bulldozers will be making wonderful pushes of dirt all around the yard. Sounds, words, music, poetry. (Am I too specific? optimistic?) The whole action might last any amount of time. Maybe the machines will run out of gas. Or the people take over the machines. Or the holes might cave in. In any case I am sure there will be enough range of possibilities in the art to permit individual variation, and in time, style and acceptance.
Meaningless Work
Meaningless work is obviously the most important and significant art form today. The aesthetic feeling given by meaningless work can not be described because it varies with each individual doing the work. Meaning work is honest.
Meaningless work doesn’t provide money or accomplish a conventional purpose.
Type of poetry called Asymmetries – poems of which the words, punctation, typography and spacing are determined by chance operations. In later asymmetries the prolongation or reiteration of certain sounds in words is similarly determined.
Hole Poems
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