Florian Cramer on Wed, 19 Sep 2001 20:07:04 +0200 (CEST) |
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<nettime> Stockhausen: WTC attack is "biggest artwork of all times" |
According to the German news agency dpa, Karlheinz Stockhausen said in an interview he gave on account of a concert in Hamburg: "What happened there is - now you must readjust your brain - the biggest artwork of all times. That spirits achieve in a single act what we in music cannot dream of, that people rehearse ten years long like mad, totally fanatical for a concert and then die. This is the biggest artwork that exists at all in the whole universe... I couldn't match it. Against that, we - as composers - are nothing." Asked by a jorunalist whether he identified art and crime, Stockhausen replied: "It's a crime because the people were not consenting. They haven't come to the 'concert'. This is evident. And nobody had announced them that they could die in its process. What happened there spiritually, this leap from security, from what's ordinary, from life, that sometimes happens poco a poco in art. Or else it is nothing." The Financial Times Germany quotes Stockhausen's colleague Gyorgy Ligeti with the following reaction: "Stockhausen has taken the side of the terrorists. [...] If he thinks this atrocious mass murder is an artwork, I am sorry that I have to say that he should be locked up in a psychiatric hospital". (All quotes translated from German by me) Florian -- http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~cantsin/homepage/ http://www.complit.fu-berlin.de/institut/lehrpersonal/cramer.html GnuPG/PGP public key ID 3200C7BA "c u in he][l][avan" (mez, _Viro.Logic Condition][ing][ 1.1_) # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net