The Canadian artist Janet Cardiff, who's a old friend of one of m exes, has done several walking sound tours of cities mixing literature and personal reflection in with music and soundscapes. The viewer/listener uses loaned out audio players and walks around. She did one for Central Park years ago, and another famous one in London:
Funny, that! theoctothorpe arranged an outing for us several summers back, specifically to do her tour. Sadly the tour was cancelled due to the weather, so a group of us wound up hitting the Bastille Day event in front of the Alliance Francaise. We wanted to guillotine the peasants!
Patrick Fenton, who wants historical markers at seven Kerouac haunts in Ozone Park ---------- Markers? How 'bout a statue of Kerouc giving a blow job, while holding a cigarette (and buttcheek?) in one hand and a bottle of whiskey in the other?
The controversy of getting it installed alone would draw herds to this place called "Ozone", that once had too little oxygen, not too much...
No matter how evil I am, I didn't mean to be particularly cynical. Afterall, didn't the "Beats" want to rebel against the very conventions, the mores, the horror that was the 50s? Given that, what exactly does it mean to ensconce one of them with a 'marker'?
I'm not sure I'd want a marker outside my mother's house, since living with your mom, for art's sake or no, isn't exactly all that jazz. It's not like he was studying to be a priest - didn't he have three wives or something and a kid, lost along the way, too? Not very Catholic, that, so ...
They'll probably find some nice, generic plaque-like post. Poor Jack may well have his "Mozart Geburtshaus", sanitized for your protection, of course!
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It would be a great idea to do something like that for a Jack Kerouac walk, or maybe just a general writer or artist walk for Queens neighborhoods.
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Markers? How 'bout a statue of Kerouc giving a blow job, while holding a cigarette (and buttcheek?) in one hand and a bottle of whiskey in the other?
The controversy of getting it installed alone would draw herds to this place called "Ozone", that once had too little oxygen, not too much...
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No matter how evil I am, I didn't mean to be particularly cynical. Afterall, didn't the "Beats" want to rebel against the very conventions, the mores, the horror that was the 50s? Given that, what exactly does it mean to ensconce one of them with a 'marker'?
I'm not sure I'd want a marker outside my mother's house, since living with your mom, for art's sake or no, isn't exactly all that jazz. It's not like he was studying to be a priest - didn't he have three wives or something and a kid, lost along the way, too? Not very Catholic, that, so ...
They'll probably find some nice, generic plaque-like post. Poor Jack may well have his "Mozart Geburtshaus", sanitized for your protection, of course!
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