«A Fool, according to the dictionary, is» a person with little or no judgment, common sense, wisdom, etc.; a man formerly kept in the household of a nobleman or king to entertain by acting as a clown.« Central to this definition is the infinitive »to entertain,« which derives from the French »entre« meaning between, and »tenir,« meaning to hold. Thus, its literal definition (and the one which Webster's uses within its etymological brackets) is »to hold between.« In the case of a fool, what is held between is teh attention of the audience, involving a suspension of judgment which inevitably renders the fool's role comedic in nature. For an artist, »to entertain" is to hold his or her audience between two worlds - the private, subjective world of the artist's vision and the commonly held accepted conventions of a more universal, public world... (1983)

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«culture is not your friend. It insults you. It uses and abuses you. None of us are treated well by culture. The cultura is a perversion. It fetishizes objects. Endless forms of false happiness....It dehumanizes ourselves into meme processors..By creating art. By putting the art petal to the metal, we really maximize our humanism and become much more necessary and incomprehensible to the machines.»
-Terence McKenna
Psychedelic Society

«Since in any situation 10 percent of the events cause 90 percent, we ignore the 10 percent and are stunned by the 90 percent. Without an anti-environment, all environments are invisible. The role of the artist is to create anti-environments as means of perception and adjustment. Hamlet's sleuth technique for coping with the hidden environment around him was that of an artist: 'As I perchance hereafter shall think meet to put on anti disposition on . . .»
(Hamlet, Act I, Scene V)"

«The criminal like the artist is a social explorer.»
—Marshall McLuhan

First excerpt from «culture is our business» (out of print), second
from a lecture i can't track down.

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John Joseph Bachir

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"You see, any user can change any entry, and if enough other users agree with them, it becomes true. ... If only the entire body of human knowledge worked this way. And it can, thanks to tonight's word: Wikiality. Now, folks, I'm no fan of reality, and I'm no fan of encyclopedias. I've said it before. Who is Britannica to tell me that George Washington had slaves? If I want to say he didn't, that's my right. And now, thanks to Wikipedia, it's also a fact.
We should apply these principles to all information. All we need to do is convince a majority of people that some factoid is true. ... What we're doing is bringing democracy to knowledge."

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Here is a song from Laurie Anderson's upcoming album HOMELAND. this mp3 is ripped from a youtube clip of her recent performance at Lincoln Center [excuse the audio glitch, that was a result of youtube].

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First of All I have uploaded some Images of my senior show to

Self Portrait

I will have some more images soon of the overall gallery which gives it that wunderkrammer feeling I wanted it to have. So check back and pass it around.

Also we had the first in a series of roundtable discussions organized by myself and Lena Imamura. The topic was «Medium and Memory» and went great. This series is essentially a string of dinner parties. Lena describes its purpose, " With these discussions we hope to value conversation as the most informative, experiential and important form of learning and communication. By gathering a range of people to contribute their own
experiences and knowledge through conversation, a community of information will developWith these discussions we hope to value conversation as the most
informative, experiential and important form of learning and communication. By gathering a range of people to contribute their own experiences and knowledge through conversation, a community of information will develop"

If your interested in participating or curious email me.

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On achète ton bonheur. Vole-le.
They buy your happiness. Steal it.

Sous les pavés, la plage !
Beneath the paving stones - the beach!

Ni Dieu ni maître !
Neither God nor master

La culture est l'inversion de la vie.
Culture is the inversion of life.

L'art est mort, ne consommez pas son cadavre.
Art is dead, don't consume its corpse.

'sois jeune - tais-toi!
Be young - shut up!

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The Impermanence of things is a series of pieces that I have been working on Since October.

May 7 - 12, 2007
Opening Reception
Tuesday, May 8
6-8 pm
The Cooper Union
7 East 7th Street
7th Floor
New York, NY, 10003

Free Booze,Treats, and Art

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