Art no competition

[bandwraith at aol.com]

Good tune. If we could only teach the Taliban to sing...


-----Original Message-----
From: Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de>
To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Wed, Aug 15, 2012 7:29 am
Subject: Re: Art no competition



They got a name for the winners in the world
I want a name when I lose
They call Alabama the Crimson Tide
Call me Deacon Blues

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ck1N1I-LzWc


On 15.08.2012 13:08, bandwraith at aol.com wrote:

May be one reason why the counterforce is doomed. Is it possible to win 
by losing?


-----Original Message-----
From: Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de>
To: Phillip Greenlief <pgsaxo at pacbell.net>; pynchon -l 
<pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Wed, Aug 15, 2012 6:41 am
Subject: Art no competition (was: Re: Borges, Woolf)



On 14.08.2012 21:14, Phillip Greenlief wrote:



art isn't a competition - i don't care who wins the latest literary 
pissing contest, or who did what first, i am interested in the work


Makes me think of Christoph Schlingensief who said "art does not know 
any winners and so I call off this event right now", when he was to 
proclaim the winner of the 'Publikumspreis der Nationalgalerie für 
Junge Kunst' in Berlin in September 2005 ("Kunst kennt keine Sieger, 
also breche ich die Veranstaltung ab").

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christoph_Schlingensief