I’m taking classes at the Conceptual Oregon Performance School this summer and I’m a huge nerd. Here are my notes from class and related links. This is a video based class so the majority of the links are videos.
Gender & Punk Class notes/discussion topics:
- “Gender & punk” being a loosely defined, small framework for a gargantuan range of topic
- Most videos are based in music rather than performance or art realm
- Old-school punk (definition of movement in hindsight, sensationalised after the fact)
- Target Videoin San Fransisco, generally amazing source of video documentation of performance, music and interviews in the 1970s and 80s.
- The Screamers, live at Target studios: 122 Hours of Fear
- Tomata du Plenty known for performance, locked into viewer/camera
- The Cramps live at Napa Mental Hospital
- The Screamers, live at Target studios: 122 Hours of Fear
- Pranks! Karen Finley
- Lydia Lunch interviews on Video Wave, 1983 and 1985
- The idea of someone always being “on” [see Wind Up Monkey class notes 07/23, Paris Hilton, complex acting]
- Mythbuilding
- Taking every opportunity to “create experience”
- The idea of someone always being “on” [see Wind Up Monkey class notes 07/23, Paris Hilton, complex acting]
- Backyard cover band loses only fan
- Using spaces, venues: Crispin Glover on Letterman, 1987, promoting Rubin & Ed
- In a similar vein of Letterman being snide/undercutting his guests:
- Crispin Glover’s current work
- John Waters [fan site]
- Have another pretzel for Chrissake
- Reacting to a specific time and place.
- Have another pretzel for Chrissake
- It’s easy to look back and see what a person or group is reacting to
- What is the thing/enemy that art is being made in response to?
- It’s easy to look at old transgressive work and mock it, denying previous context.
- Is “seeing everything on the internet” really seeing, or seeing “everything”?
- Not if Pink Flamingos‘ chicken scene is still shocking.
- Cycle from transgression to accepted to novelty.
- Documented trend cycle studied in fashion, (Introduction, Rise, Peak, Decline, Obsolescence), Laver’s Law.
- Smart ass infographic
- Timeline is growing tighter for cycles, btw.
- Anna Nicole thought child was gas
- Howard more interested in getting footage than what is being filmed
- So much chance involved, to create purposefully as a video piece is both impressive and terrible. [see Hello/Goodbye class notes 07/17, mention of set dressing]
- Series of essays on Anna Nicole as sacrificial fertility goddess
- Audience documentation of performative action—gone public and popular, beyond expectations or preferences of performer or videographer
- Bullied Kid Fights Back (unexpected result)
- Fan hits Justin Bieber with water bottle (multiple documenters)
- Megadeth Dave Mustaine vs the lazer(performer freakout)
- [Related to discussion in the "I’m an ice sculptor" class—the simultaneously paternal and petulant relationship of performer to audience]
- Laser on Kiss (performer freakout)
- Shoe thrown at Bush (unexpected result)
- Harry Pussy’s Sex Pro [ungooglable, no vid link at this time]
- Infinity Factory: Throbbing Gristle’s Genesis P Orrige interview
- Throbbing Gristle’s ‘discipline’ in transcending stage
- Two dogs stuck together
- Performative action: Public marriage rejection at Washington Wizards game
- Becoming a staged action with plants, to create drama
- Vancouver riots
- People tagged on Facebook, then easily found by police
- Everyone is documenting with cameras and camera phones
Mirrored from Journal of a Something or Other.