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    Ex Why Zee
    Ex Why Zee
    Ex Why Zee
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    Ex Why Zee

    By Bruce Andrews

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    Fiction. Bruce Andrew's EX WHY ZEE gives us a decade's worth of language from live multi-media performances and collaborations. These performance texts and scores capture the energy that continues to enliven the new art scenes in dance, theatre, music, and poetry. Andrew's work is at the center of these innovations - designed to floodlight the impossible, to maximize meaning at the microphone.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRoof Books
    Release dateJan 1, 1995
    ISBN9780937804605
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      Ex Why Zee - Bruce Andrews

      solo.

      1.

      FACT CONFECTED

      A mix of appropriations & responses.

      ORNAMENTALS

      Dear Abby,

      We decent Americans are going to get you. Gesture basic abstraction, light, transparency, ovalized by movement, whereby illusion is made, after a shock, & organized one dares not move. The only sound was the TV commentator describing the commodity structure penetrating society in all its aspects and remoulding it in its own image. We are not exactly Marxists, but if that utensil should prove useful in our household, we will not eat with our hands out of spite. Juxtapositions of light made this dream consumed image between the penny arcades & mirrors reflecting masturbating naked brain of magnetized nitrous screens crackling is like pulp beside dummy circumstance. They wound up with enough lead in them to go into the plumbing business. Refusing to resort to glycerine, Griffith had to work on her until she had achieved real tears and formulated the principle of rectilinear inertia. A word to advanced students: Each sign should be considered as a GENERAL IDEA UNIT, a kind of idea alphabet block, to be placed end to end with other blocks when by their association a definite meaning is established. In the world’s structure dream loosens individuality like a bad tooth. Some people of the East Indies think that Apes and Baboons, which are with them in great numbers, are imbued with understanding, and that they can speak but will not for fear they should be employed, and set to work. The hips have the neck’s insolence, delivering us from black-mail-lyricism with rising intonation in statement contexts. When it is time to start, then start.

      THE DISTANCING DEVICE IS THE STAFF OF LIFE (Hugo Ball)

      Politics & art are two different things.

      People act as if nothing had happened — like a breed of beatles that

      fake death when touched so as to avoid being destroyed.

      The word should be left alone. In fact,

      the destruction of the speech organs can be a means of self-discipline.

      The false structure is collapsing,

      the word has become commodity,

      the word and the image are crucified, yet

      everyone wanted to be his own exorcist for his own body.

      Most of these rebels are really heretical preachers,

      and I find the socialist theories rather romantic and tasteless since they

      count on the enthusiasm of the masses.

      Nietzsche attacked the church & left the state alone. That was a big

      mistake: the state is only a commodity.

      The citizen is a commodity too — for the state. But

      the center is still made of skins and

      form wants to penetrate mass.

      Can a whole nation become romantic?

      It is necessary to drop all respect for tradition, opinion and judgement

      —

      a puffed-up nothing,

      the whole arrangement seems to be a disastrous discharge of optical

      illusions,

      dandyism,

      Dadaland.

      I was much too involved in nationalism.

      We are going to Germany —

      you are (still) the mummy among nations.

      BALL + PROBLEM + TACTIC + CLOCK

      ( A Score for Movement)

      B:It is best to (JOURNALISM) in a manner somewhere between

      angelic caution & foolish aggressionTaken a mutton head (LENGTH)

      away from the objectShepherdingHome runPass roll

      Join upBoth go short distance.

      PredominanceHitting true BisqueThis is nothing if

      not realisticUsing an abnormal (FOLLOW-THROUGH) to create

      dependenceKnowhow (CURVES) in an inward tendency from line of

      pencil.

      Easier deed (LESS RISK)Cross wireDouble banking

      Pig pen (CROSS)Feather-offTake-offAvoid wasting

      time in prolonged discussion with partner.

      Beefy wadLive in the corner for defensive purposes

      Qualifying shockStop shock, shop shotAll-round break (FAST)

      When you’re three tools dead you’re just a useless socially inept bum.

      *

      P:Angel split    CannonPseudo-cannon effigyDouble

      target (ON DEFENSELESS EUROPE)Kiss CannonCaps are

      considered effete by seasoned people.

      Hoop-BoundStymieWired passage (OFF) the X mark

      Rigor mortisCross poke impedes foesWhile the opponent

      stalks at night, the coarse player will try to make a distracting sound of

      maximum irritation.

      Insures aim, class struggleRush eventStalking red

      areaHit at the very top, as if you were breaking an egg

      Thick take-off, you go a little, she goes a lotNo Brainer.

      If your tool gets wet, always dry it offSplit event density

      controlDouble trap folkPivot molds to your footbrain

      Coup count upon, bedevilled byConcurrent with the noise ploy.

      *

      T:Unlawfully prolonged contactReplace to where were they

      before happensFooting so holiday junk remains stationary

      (CONDONING) too familiar togetherRover — overt hooped (UP) but

      not pigged (OUT)Scatter / jam.

      Have to be lifted & repositioned(NOT ALLOWED) a really

      frequent misnomerPopping gum, cracking knuckles, sucking teeth

      & whistling are all examples of noises which have turned coarse players

      into championsHalf-baked (DISEMBODIED) cuesSpanish Civil

      WarSticky wicket is a recent storyUnacceptable or foul

      languageIt must be a matter of conscience how we act when we

      receive unsolicited information or bad advice.

      Offset warpage Forestalling / foot allowed / (ENERGY) telegram

      Pass roll cross wire — caught up in the cross winds(JAWS)

      You become a deviant and get away with it.

      The soft rule is a good oneInvoluntarily to an end

      Break downDestroy (NONDECISION)WaiveBeefy stop

      (INNING)maintenanceReference on Appeal.

      *

      C:Trade (ORDERS)Continuous strokatationWidow (NEUTRAL)

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