Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 19:36:02 -0700
From: ann klefstad <klefkal-AT-cpinternet.com>
Subject: Re: R: invitation




"fabiani." wrote:

> Excuse me Ann, but I found this project a great shit.
> What about Greeks and Latins in a "AVANT-GARDE" list ????????
>
> The Avantgarde is a walk in the future, not an deadly look our past.
>
> Please don't repost rethorical abstracts.

You have more faith than I in the possibility of novelty! I'm currently doing
an installation called "Old Stories," Seamus Heaney's trans. of  "Beowulf" is
a bestseller, "Struwellpeter" w/ music by the Tiger Lillies, a 19th cent.
piece of domestic theater brut or brute, is a big hit in London and
travelling in US, there's a huge upsurge of interest among radical musicians
in Scandinavia in transformations of ancient folk music, Native Americans are
leading the way in the US in transforming notions of the lifeworld with their
very ancient ethos--all this is transformative, the best manifestation of the
avant garde. Why the hell can't Homer shake a little booty? Isn't the
demoticization of a traditionally elite text an avantgarde notion?

Take a gander at the Prague School thinkers re narrative, extend this to
current research in brain physiology, and rearrange the furniture. There is
nothing new under the sun.

AK


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