Eric Rohmer, My Night With Maude

 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064612/

Muhammad Ali

Stefan Themerson

http://lux.org.uk/collection/works/stefan-themerson-and-language

Dunne and Raby

Allan Kaprow

Allan Kaprow

Interview, Allan Kaprow/ Barbara Berman, 1967

"I'm quite sure that what I do is a moral tool of sorts. Most human activity is (or can be). But if I said I was trying to make people "aware," it would sound coercive and more didactic than it really is. Moreover, the question of what people are to beocme aware of would arise, and simple answers to that would be misleading and truistic.

I play games; if I called them sermons then nobody would play. Not even I. The game is the moral; the moral of the game is to beg the question.

A Happening is an assemblage of events performed or perceived in more than one time and place. Its material environments may be constructed, taken over directly from what is available, or altered slightly; just as its activities may be invented or commonplace. A Happening, unlike a stage play, may occur at a supermarket, driving along a highway, under a pile of rags, and in a friend's kitchen, either at once or sequentially. If sequentially, time may extend to more than a year. The Happening is performed according to plan but without rehearsal, audience, or repetition. It is art but seems closer to life."

Pinpointing Happenings, Allan Kaprow, 1967

"What do the fifty-odd Happeners around the world think a Happening is?

... granting a certain amount of oversimplification, there appear to be roughly six directions prevalent. Among them there is a fair amount of overlapping and continuous recombination. ...

The fifth is entirely mental. It is Idea art or literary suggestion when it is written down in its usual form of short notes ... Following the Duchampian implication that art is what is in mind of the beholder, who can make art or non-art at will, a thought is as valuable as an action. The mere notion that the world is full of "ready-made" activities permits one quite seriously to "sign" the whole earth or any part of it, without actually doing a thing. The responsibility for such quasi-art is thus thrown entirely upon the shoulders of any individual who cares to accept it. The rest is primarily meditative, but may lead in time to meaningful action.

...

Like much social endeavour, and like all creative endeavour, Happenings are moral activity, if only by implication. Moral intelligence, in contrast to moralism or sermonizing, is what comes alive in a field of pressing alternatives. Moral certainty tends at best to be pious, sentimental; at worst pietistic. The Happenings in their various modes, resemble the best efforts of contemporary inquiry into identity ad meaning, for they take their stand in the midst of a modern information deluge. In such a plethora of possible choices, they may be among the most responsible acts of our time."

Allan Kaprow, Communications Programming, 1966

"TV "snow" and Muzak in restaurants are accompaniements to conscious activity which, if suddenly withdrawn, produce a feeling of void in the human situation. Contemporary art, which tends to "think" in multi-media, intermedia, overlays, fusions and hybridizations, is a closer parallel to modern mental life than we have realized. Its judgements, therefore, may be acute. "Art" may soon become a meaningless word. In its place, "communication programming" would be a more imaginative label, attesting to our new jargon, our technological managerial fantasies, and to our pervasive electroniv contact with each other"

Allan Kaprow

Cao Guimarães and Pablo Lobato

Cao Guimarães and Pablo Lobato. Acidente, 2006.

Lygia Pape

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lgr5H0lqTE

Dunhuang Star Chart

"Detail of the Star Map from the Tang Dynasty showing the North Polar region (British Library Or.8210/S.3326). This map was made approximately in the year 700,^[1] around the reign of Emperor Zhongzong of Tang (705-710). Constellations of the three schools were distinguished with different colors: white, black and yellow for stars of Wuxian, Gan De and Shi Shen respectively. The whole set of star maps contained 1,300 stars"

"The Chinese Dunhuang 'Star Chart' shown here was the world's first atlas of the stars"
Dated to the Tang Dynasty (618–907)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunhuang_Star_Chart

Video

Herbert Bayer

Herbert Bayer Design For Universal Lettering, 1925.

Josef Albers for the Bauhaus

Sophie T-Arp