Spiritual development
Believe in what you do

LECTURE

Video: BEAT POETRY (street language)
Beat news (the latest news)

- William Burroughs
- Henri Rollins
- Allen Ginsberg (HOWL)
- Diane di Prima
- Ed Sanders
- John Giarno
- Anne Waldman
- Marianne Faithful
- Richard Hell ("CUZ" - Rock'n' Roll)
- Lydia Lunch
- Jim Carrols ("The Basketball Diaries")
- Jack Keroack

ARTIST TECHNIQUES:
- journal
- woekshop/getting to gether with other artists
- talking to others

INFLUENCE/INSPIRATION:
- from other artists
- atom bomb
- political events
- spirituality/drugs

"WHAT IS ART?"
"WHAT INFORMS THE ART?"
"WHAT TOOLS DO YOU NEED?

Communication
Lifestyle/stereotypes
Inspirational art/disciplined art practice

CREATING FOR AN AUDIENCE

Spirits - religion and drugs

Spiritos

Intoxication

Spiritual uplifting

"ARTS IS A THREE LETTER WORD"
Burrough

ROLE OF ARTISTS?

GANG OF SOULS
Creating something for an audience - exhibition; disiplin and inspiration

"FIRST WORD IS THE BEST WORD" Ginsberg

Disiplined art
Inspirational art



DURING THE WEEK


CD-ROM: DOCKS "un notre web" 1999

- Galleries
- Animations
- Texts
- "Externes modules"

I looked mostly at galleries and animations
Many of the poems were written in French, and made it hard to understand the whole context.

Some of the sites are represented on the www:

http://www.multimania.com/abrahams/beinghuman/info.htm

http://artists.banff.org/bobbitt/cd_lay.htm

http://www.sitec.fr/users/akenatondocks/deux.htm


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