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phew. horsemouth has made it to the end of the week. he does this with one hand while with the other he is conducting an evening in celebration of the release of the fall of the house of fitzgerald. 

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today (while traveling) horsemouth read. he read rosie lee goldberg's  performance art in the thames and hudson world of art series. there have been 3 editions of it so far (that horsemouth knows of from the days when he used to frequent second hand book shops and bargain racks). 

you can get the pdf here.

this starts with alfred jarry's ubu roi and moves on through the use made of it by the futurists, dada, the constructivists and the bauhaus. kandinsky's trajectory was from the constructivists to the bauhaus but all of them used performance to refresh their artistic juices and get the ideas flowing again. though of course, as the text notes early on, da vinci, caravaggio, bernini, people famous to us as painters, had all used performance and put on renaissance spectaculars. there is a prehistory of performance to be written.

horsemouth is up to p114 and the performance of RuR- Russom's Universal Robots in berlin in 1922. he's still got all the new stuff to come.

from the film side of it horsemouth would probably cite kenneth anger, sun ra, paradjanov, pasolini, jonas mekas. anything with nice static shots. (it's a paradox that what really works though are the shots where himself and enza are in motion. 

it was, horsemouth has to admit, great fun to do. horsemouth's version of darktown strutter's ball even getting compared to the great bonzo dog doo-dah band. he feels a bit bad about not being able to extend out teh party some more.