[-empyre-] scores, landscapes and defenders

[Simon Biggs]

I had an undergraduate student do this once for his examination. He locked all the lecturers into the room and had professional nightclub bouncers guard the doors with baseball bats. He then presented some hardcore gay videos and demanded the lecturers perform in the midst of all this according to a score he had devised. I thought it was hilarious but one of the other academics was very upset and tried to have him expelled. When that failed he tried to sue the student. That failed as well. Happily it was Holland in the 80's and the directors of the academy were reasonably enlightened - but we did have some unhappy lecturers for a while who avoided my students. The student passed with distinction and is now a reasonably high profile Dutch video and performance artist.

best

Simon

On 25 Jan 2013, at 16:30, Johannes Birringer wrote:

> well my proposal is simple:  what if hypothetical Phd candidate would submit a "score" of instructions for the examiners to carry out,  along the lines of Clifford Owens's Anthology?  I think it could work.  The Phd project and Viva need a good curator, though. 


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