{"id":4145,"date":"2010-03-18T23:10:41","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T23:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/?p=4145"},"modified":"2010-03-19T00:12:50","modified_gmt":"2010-03-19T00:12:50","slug":"a-roundabout-way-of-debating-whether-or-not-to-pay-10-to-see-a-performance-of-monotone-symphony-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2010\/03\/a-roundabout-way-of-debating-whether-or-not-to-pay-10-to-see-a-performance-of-monotone-symphony-next-week.html","title":{"rendered":"A roundabout way of debating whether or not to pay \u00a310 to see a performance of Monotone Symphony next week"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Via greg.org<\/a>, Google Street View of the street where Yves Klein “actually leapt into space one morning in 1960”. Fun fact I didn’t know: the famous photograph inspired Paul McCarthy to throw himself out of a window at art school.<\/p>\n

\n“I hadn’t seen the photograph<\/a>, so I jumped out feet first,” McCarthy says. “In the late ’60s when I see the image of him diving, I am shocked and I think, ‘Oh god, mine is so pathetic.’ And then, years later, it comes out that the photograph is a fake. That’s what’s so great.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Once again, I’m back onto the ideas of radical amateurism<\/a> and the desirability of distortion. I can’t find the references now, so I won’t mention the story of Nam June Paik being annoyed when Joseph Byrd performed Paik’s composition Playing Music<\/em> (the piece which instructs the performer to make a 10cm cut in their forearm) because, as the instigator, he then felt obliged to perform the piece himself.<\/p>\n

\nInstead, I’ll mention the time I visted the Louisiana Museum<\/a> and saw a small group of little kids on the floor, clustered around one of the Yves Klein Anthropom\u00e9tries<\/a><\/em>, painstakingly drawing copies, reproducting exactly each stray fleck of paint with coloured pencils and sheets of paper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Via greg.org, Google Street View of the street where Yves Klein “actually leapt into space one morning in 1960”. Fun fact I didn’t know: the famous photograph inspired Paul McCarthy to throw himself out of a window at art school. “I hadn’t seen the photograph, so I jumped out feet first,” McCarthy says. “In the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4145"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4145"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4150,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4145\/revisions\/4150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}