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1971-10-01 ""Fire Burning on Water""
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October 1, 1971; 8-10 PM Fire Burning on Water, a simplified and elemental disaster, staged on the city pond as part of the nightmare intermedia program Incident Light "Before, reality was overlaid with metaphors by way of ornament; now the tendency is to eliminate the extrapoetical, or real, prop and to 'realize' the metaphor, to make it the res poetica" Ortega y Gasset. The Modernist's Inversion of Metaphors I construct two rafts and anchor one, loaded with pyramid wood, in the middle of the pond. I use the second on the evening of the performance to paddle out and ignite the conflagration. It is constructed in the manner of the desperate and the innovative, consisting of three sculpture pedestals roped together. Sfumato A man sits with a small fire between his crossed legs His right shoulder is elevated, and his upright arm and hand dissipate in smoke. His head is drawn aside, suddenly exalted The Clinging Fire: Li The Abysmal Water: Kan The Book of Changes "J.B... What the artists are doing is similar to those great train race movies, where the train is in a race and suddenly runs out of coal. so they start chopping up the coaches to fire the engine furnace and keep it going. This is what conceptual art does. W.S. Do you see art dissolving into nothingness in the near future? J.B No It's dissolving into comprehension" "Willoughby Sharp interviews Jack Burnham." Great Western Salt Works 148 `
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October 1, 1971; 8-10 PM Fire Burning on Water, a simplified and elemental disaster, staged on the city pond as part of the nightmare intermedia program Incident Light "Before, reality was overlaid with metaphors by way of ornament; now the tendency is to eliminate the extrapoetical, or real, prop and to 'realize' the metaphor, to make it the res poetica" Ortega y Gasset. The Modernist's Inversion of Metaphors I construct two rafts and anchor one, loaded with pyramid wood, in the middle of the pond. I use the second on the evening of the performance to paddle out and ignite the conflagration. It is constructed in the manner of the desperate and the innovative, consisting of three sculpture pedestals roped together. Sfumato A man sits with a small fire between his crossed legs His right shoulder is elevated, and his upright arm and hand dissipate in smoke. His head is drawn aside, suddenly exalted The Clinging Fire: Li The Abysmal Water: Kan The Book of Changes "J.B... What the artists are doing is similar to those great train race movies, where the train is in a race and suddenly runs out of coal. so they start chopping up the coaches to fire the engine furnace and keep it going. This is what conceptual art does. W.S. Do you see art dissolving into nothingness in the near future? J.B No It's dissolving into comprehension" "Willoughby Sharp interviews Jack Burnham." Great Western Salt Works 148 `
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