File spoon-archives/avant-garde.archive/avant-garde_1997/97-04-26.202, message 33


Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 09:43:22 -0500
From: dhiggins-AT-mhv.net (Dick Higgins)
Subject: Re: on the flank...


Dear Blister-

How the Hell would you know if there could be an avant garde? You obviously
neither know nor care about the matter or you would not ask such facetious
questions. "With or without reference."  Do you work in some Creative
Writing program somewhere? Shouldn't those all be abolished?

Honestly

Dick Higgins

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>  could there be an avant-garde without reference?
>  can there be an avant-garde with reference?
>  how much cognitivity has been passed on the way
>to an institutionalised discourse?
>  in the effort to substantiate aesthetics in the
>maw of consumptive barry bonds and seinfeld are we
>'the people' in fact finalising a bad deal reactively?
>  perhaps the avant-garde is, let's say, closer to
>home. perhaps the avant-garde grows less like artaud
>and more like a sunflower (to evoke...).
>  perhaps the avant-garde is nothing like capitalism
>and the interest to carve out a patronized space but
>rhizomatically builds nutrients to erupt appropriately
>in the interests of the many and not the few.
>  i dunno. you tell me.
>
>
>
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Dick Higgins
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Curious about my paintings? See my show on the Gallery pages of the Left
Hand Books site-<http://www.lefthandbooks.com/lhb>. You can see "Double
John," a portrait of Cage, and three others. You can order books or buy the
paintings if you feel so inclined. And it's not the stuff you'll find in
galleries or book superstores.






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