page: ‘skill’
•Generally, I’ve lately been drawn to the writer Liz Kotz
•Kotz’s exploration of artists (in the wake of Cage) turning to language as a key element of medium.
•Pay attention: “…composition, performance, and listening…”/”…production, transmission, reception…”/”…message transmission…”
•RINGS LIKE: PURPOSE AND AUDIENCE
•Conditions of clarity needed or the production of missiles (and their guidance, perhaps more importantly)…(this is of course too simple…of course)
•Keep in mind that Sheils has a criteria of “structure and lucidity” – I read Sheils as reactionary - (published 1975) - when you read the fragment of the “Indian Alcatraz Proclamation”
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•The dilemma of ‘skill’…both the Kotz and Sheils fragments are taken from pieces that in some way RE: “The ‘Crisis’ in Composition”…
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•Need for determining the condition of clarity that can produce systems (missile guidance and otherwise)