RITE OF SPRING MONDAY! (continued…still…)
So, C.C. was doing a little research on Yvonne Rainer and this whole RoS Perplexical, and we came upon this article in Artforum. In it, Rainer herself writes about the process of working on the piece. It’s there that Kourlas got the Robin-Williams-is-a-kinetic-genius info. It’s also there where Rainer exposes her dirty history as a hater of music.
What’s fascinating, here, is the glimpse into the self-affirming lore an artist can create around their work. She seems to be making the argument that RoS indexes history more than it strikes out on any new path. Well, duh! Rainer writes, “It’s about having a public conversation with your antecedents, foregrounding that fact rather than submerging it as if everything you do comes out of your own unique imagination. That’s never the case with me. One can’t escape history…”
Well. One can neither escape–nor ignore–the present.
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