ART IS A DEAD MAN.






it all started a 17th of January, one million years ago.
a man took a dry sponge and dropped it into a bucket full of water.
who that man was is not important.
he is dead, but art is alive.
I mean, let's keep names out of this.

ART IS A DEAD MAN.

[ art's birthday 2008 broadcast ]

[ ART IS A DEAD MAN / tV]
+ the interventions of Queen Charlotte

January 17th is the birthday of art // when, approximately 1, 045 000 years ago someone (well, a some-him) dropped a dry sponge in a bucket of water. The birth of art was born in 1963 with Robert Filliou of Fluxus. ART IS A DEAD MAN. Fillou's concept of the Eternal Network lives on. We've stolen in, date after date. We've stolen it, time after time. The Eternal Network, a kind of drop-in hospitality to the freaks of the world, the pranksters of passion, comedians of aesthetics, the interconnected world of telecommunications tricksters, radio guerillas, frequency pirates who occupy & intervene in the airwaves & cables. In 1963 as now the channels of communication are locked-up by the cabals of consumption. The Eternal Network reoccupies telecommunications and sets the channel back to the fuzz.

Me, I prefer radio. If anything because radio remains the primal and first medium of the 20thC to transmit the unconscious. Subliminal messaging to the aural core. Since 1997 I've been involved in The Western Front's '24 hours of Radio Art' through CiTR 101.9FM (as co-host of noiz-r) and lately CKUT. Check out Anna Friz's history of this era.

as I was saying, at about 10 o'clock, a 17th of January, one million years ago, a man sat
alone by the side of a running stream.
he thought to himself:
where do streams run to, and why?
meaning why do they run.
or why do they run where they run.
that sort of thing.

But why A MAN. ?

[ art's birthday 2008 broadcast ]

[ ART IS A DEAD MAN / tV]
+ the interventions of Queen Charlotte


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posted. Sun - February 3, 2008 @ 10:34 PM           |