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Michael Kirby (1)

Autore di Futurist Performance (PAJ Books)

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Michael Kirby is Professor of Performance Studies at New York University. He is an active director, playwright, actor, and author

Opere di Michael Kirby

Happenings (1965) 44 copie
Tulane Drama Review T51 (1971) 5 copie

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One of the most inspiring bks of all-time for me. Happenings are visions of life lead according to the imagination. One might say that any performance, eg, is that, but I think Happenings went much further than most performances in their transformations of ordinary 'reality'. Happenings were less dependent on creating a suspension of disbelief than they were on simply (or complexly) reorganizing the matter(s) at hand into WHATEVER.

How can I 'do justice' to this bk?! If there's a way to add scans to these reviews I don't know it. If there's a way to make this computer screen reach out & tickle you I don't know it. Nothing less wd suffice. Oldenberg, eg, is pretty well-known as a pop artist, but how many people realize that when he was asked to do a Happening at a museum that he only used trash from around the site? That typifies the spirit here.

All these people took life & blew it up BIG & had FUN w/ it & let people LIVE. Living is precarious. Sometimes it's more than just working w/o a net, sometimes it's even working w/o the tightrope itself, it's walking across the void living on the faith that a tightrope isn't needed to levitate.
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This, &, more importantly, Kirby's bk "Happenings", were no doubt very important to me at some point or another. I'm sure I read at least one other bk about Italian Futurism but this is the one I'm positive of. The emphatic embracing of the industrial world seems naive & stupid in this era where industrialism is so obviously eco-destructive & capitalism is so obviously anti-humanity (& anti-life in general) intensive, but, in the 19-teens, this take on culture might've been the rough equivalent of Gangsta Rap in the sense of 'Fuck Y'all. This is what's here, we're gonna run w/ it.' The Italian Futurists were visionaries, they just didn't see far enuf. I think the dadaists saw much further. Legendarily, Marinetti (a primary Futurist) was friends w/ Mussolini. Both had very clear ideas of how they wanted to transform Italy. Mussolini caused alotof megalomaniacal grief. Marinetti probably didn't. From a formal perspective, the Italian Futurists broke new ground out the wazoo. Performance Artists of these days shd be this imaginative.. but are they?… (altro)
 
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