1981.02 APT 81 - Peking Poolroom, Montréal
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This was the 1st International Neoist Apartment Festival that I participated in unless I consider the Neoist events in Baltimore in later 1980 to be a festival, which I don't. Four members of the Krononautic Organism (our time travel society) came to Montréal from BalTimOre. Most of the images below are stills from Monty Cantsin (Istvan Kantor)'s Port-A-Pak documentation. Everyone involved was in their teens or 20s. One of the most inspiring aspects of this festival, & most Neoist festivals in the early days, was its no-budget character. There was no underlying attitude that in order for it to be any good it had to have ANY expensive trappings.
From my "Mere Outline":
041. 3 part action
- APT 81, Peking Poolroom, Montréal, CacaNada
- Mercredi, 18 Février, 1981
- First, I explained to the audience that I was going to kiss everyone there while I said the word "Pleasure" in 26 different languages. Each audience member was to rate which word they thought was most pleasurable to be kissed during the saying of. This explanation was translated into French from English by Kiki Bonbon. I proceeded to do as explained while a tape of mine played as "background usic". Most of the audience was male, 1 of the women refused to be kissed, & there was general extreme discomfort with such an intimacy from a "stranger".
- Second, the audience was led to the bathroom where they were asked, again with Kiki translating, to write the names of all of the objects in the room on those objects. The purpose of this was to make everyone more conscious of how much language surrounds us. This deteriorated into a more ordinary, but still "spirited", graffiti session.
- Finally, having moved to the bedroom, it was explained, Kiki translating, that I was going to read from the "Arabian Nights" removing all vowels - as I had heard is done in Arabic writing. This was, of course, a deliberate absurd misinterpretation of "scholarly" information meant to reduce a narrative text to gibberish & to provide a ridiculous challenge for the translator.
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042. krononautic divector field didaction
- APT 81, Peking Poolroom & the streets, Montréal, CacaNada
- Samedi, 21 Février?, 1981
- In the kitchen, the oven door was open with a turntable on it. The turntable had a record on it which I had painted with glow-in-the-dark paint. The main lighting in the room was from a clamp lamp over the turntable & from lasers which were set up to reflect off steam irons (a neoist symbol of severity) held by Kiki Bonbon & Zbigniew Brotgehirn. While the turntable turned, I blotted out the record's light by spray-painting black on it & Richard Ellsberry (then known as Richard X) gave a lecture accompanied by chalk writing on the walls about the Krononautic Organism (the time travel "society" that those of us from Baltimore at this festival represented). Ruth Turner did something out on the roof adjacent to the kitchen. Doug Retzler wandered the streets of Montréal, under the influence of LSD, aiming a low-intensity portable laser into windows & doorways of bars & other buildings periodically calling the Peking Poolroom to interupt the lecture & report on his activities. The action more or less ended when Kiki asked Zbigniew " Do you really want to do this?" (i.e.: hold the steam irons to reflect the lasers) to which Zbigniew replied "No" & they stopped doing so.
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