A couple of sound art links pursuant to our conversation re. blurred boundaries between art / non-art / anti-art and the Allan Kaprow text The Education of the Un-Artist Parts I + III...
The Artaud is a notorious radio play putting the Theatre of Cruelty into action - this extreme, scatological enterprise was naturally banned at the time. Radical theatrics to the service of radical politics. The Cage Empty Words was a lecture delivered in 1977 in Italy, disrupted by young political radicals - here the highly radical work of an experimental artist is disrupted by political radicals (many useful contradictions here...). Whitehouse is a controversial UK band known for its "power electronics" - lyrics often adopt mysogynistic / racist perspectives in order to shock the listener into action (others have noted that WH tactics are often too convincing and not very ambiguous). Cage's comments about Branca's work are interesting - here is a radical artist known for his "openness" critiquing a musical work as a harbinger of fascism - can art itself be fascist? Finally, some excerpts from a get-together of the Church Universal and Triumphant (led by Clare Prophet), which employ theatrical / musical strategies to disseminate its disturbing, but very real message...
Lines are being crossed here... Please post other examples where the lines between art + life, art + politics are blurred...
(These links will soon be active...stay tuned)
Antonin ARTAUD - Pour en Finir avec le Jugement de Dieu (1948)
Opening text
Sound effects
John CAGE - Empty Words Part III (1977)
Parts3 + 4
WHITEHOUSE - New Britain (1982), Cruise (2000)
New Britain
Will to Power (from New Britain)
Cruise
John CAGE - Comments about Glenn Branca's Indeterminate Activity of Resultant Masses (1982)
CHURCH UNIVERSAL AND TRIUMPHANT - The Sounds of American Doomsday Cults (1984)
Invocation For Judgement Against and Destruction of Rock Music
Call for Protection
Decree
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