http://blog.calarts.edu/2012/08/15/janet-sarbanes-interviews-fluxus-artist-alison-knowles-about-calarts/ News from California Institute of the Arts Thu, 30 May 2013 20:55:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://blog.calarts.edu/2012/08/15/janet-sarbanes-interviews-fluxus-artist-alison-knowles-about-calarts/comment-page-1/#comment-98985 Norman C Kaplan Wed, 16 Jan 2013 09:38:54 +0000 http://blog.calarts.edu/?p=28773#comment-98985 [PDF] inventory of the allan kaprow papers, 1940-1997 – Calisphere
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Abstract: The Allan Kaprow Papers offer comprehensive documentation of an artistic career that …… F17 – Helicopter (Alison Knowles and Norm Kaplan’s event ); Alison Knowles at …
Allan Kaprow papers – The Getty
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]]> http://blog.calarts.edu/2012/08/15/janet-sarbanes-interviews-fluxus-artist-alison-knowles-about-calarts/comment-page-1/#comment-98835 Norman C Kaplan Tue, 15 Jan 2013 09:34:30 +0000 http://blog.calarts.edu/?p=28773#comment-98835 As a member of the first class at Cal Arts in 1970-1971,
I signed up for Alison Knowles class in Concrete Poetry/Happenings/House of Dust.
Our assignment was to do something involving an interaction with the House of Dust.
Alison showed me reams of computer generated poetry with randomly combined sequences of different kinds of people in different kinds of houses in different kinds of lives in different parts of the world. I suggested for my project, a collaborative work with Alison, that we rent a helicopter and drop reams of House of Dust poetry from the sky over the Houses of Dust–in a kind of protest for world peace at a time when the US Airforce was dropping pamphlets (and bombs) on the Vietnamese.
I was half joking; but Alison arranged a meeting with the Vice President where I presented my idea, funding was obtained, and a helicopter was rented, and on the last day of School in May 1971, I soared over Burbank in a helicopter and dropped reams of Alison’s poetry from the sky.It was a beautiful day for a tour of LA by helicopter, and a beautiful day to make a poetic statement that all kinds of people living in all kinds of houses in all conditions ought to live together in peace. The poem like Picasso’s famous drawing in dust on the trunk of his art dealer’s car, blew away in the wind, but a nice thought remains.

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