Friday, July 9, 2010

it's happening

Alan Kaprow, How to Make a Happening
read the whole thing here, but also read this lovely
excerpt right now if you don't have the time-time

Naked women eat giant bowls of Cheerios and milk atop a mountain of

used tires. Children disgorge barrels of whitewash over the mountain. A

hundred yards away, men and women swimmers in brightly colored

plastic pools continually leap out of the water to catch with their mouths

rubber gaskets festooned with lifesaver candies that hang from chains of

mens’ belts. The mountain is taken down tire by tire and moved into the

pools, and the water spills out. The children tie the adults together with the

belts, they pour whitewash over the now-still heaps of bodies. Then they

buckle dozens more of the belts around their necks, waists, and legs. They

take the remaining lifesavers to a factory-fresh tire shop and offer them for

sale in laughy voices.

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