[NewMusic] Immolation

[Phillip Greenlief]

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From: newmusic-bounces at music.mills.edu
[mailto:newmusic-bounces at music.mills.edu] On Behalf Of Praemedia
Subject: Re: [NewMusic] Immolation

> work of "performance art".  I only wonder if any
> would
> agree with such sentiments if they had witnessed
> this
> self-immolation first hand.

Should be noted also that grotesque acts of self
mutilation, both mental and physical (using your idea
of witnessing the immolation as a form of mental
mutilation) have also long been a part of both
spirituality and art.

PG:
I still see this as a "spiritual act". 
Sorry, that's where I am coming from.
I'm not apologizing to you, Lance...I know no apology is necessary.

LG: 
considering they are going to publicly hang saddam
from the gallows (most likely) at this point, and with
our blessing and support (just as the official public
beheadings began as a form of execution in afghanistan
as soon as we installed the government their at the
fall of the taliban) are we really very far removed
from that?

lance

PG:
No, I should think not.

Burroughs satirized this practice marvelously in Naked Lunch. That's an
act of art and protest all in one (both reading it and writing it, I
think).


 
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