[-empyre-] Before the Law / control and cutting, stripped naked

[Alan Sondheim]

On the line for what? This had to do with Chris and art-making, not 
Vietnam. It wasn't protest; it was relatively decontextualized body-art.

- Alan


On Sat, 27 Oct 2012, Kristine Stiles wrote:

> Yes, Alan, but then there is Chris Burden's Shoot, 1971. Few put their
> bodies on the line like that.
> Kristine
> 
> 
> On Oct 27, 2012, at 4:45 PM, Alan Sondheim wrote:
> 
> 
>
>       There's also the other Goffman book, Stigma, which is relevant
>       and excellent.
>
>       I remember one oddity during the Vietnam war - there was an
>       oddly apolitical stance, I think, among performance artists in
>       the US; one could watch an Acconci piece, for example, and read
>       political action into it, but it wasn't overt; what I remember
>       in conversation with him was mostly discussions about art which
>       was emerging out of modernism, but was still bound by a rather
>       linear idea of success, style, and progress.
>
>       - Alan
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