Performative ethnography
Actors in Simulated Environments : Performance in Sociology and Ethnography
During the 1960s, artists and activists transformed notions of how public spaces might be used, expanding the range of cultural and political expressions beyond the substantial restrictions they had faced in the early postwar era. Echoing a widespread sentiment among 1960s artists, the sculptor Claes Oldenburg asserted that for art to be vital it must do more than “sit on its ass in a museum,” embracing subject matter and venues familiar to people’s everyday lives.¹ “Public space” or, more colloquially, “the street” provided the locus for this sea change in the arts. Describing a civil rights movement confrontation in Talladega,...
To 'edge me " into this Faux Cautionary Tale "my Tribe" introduced early on the first of my Philadelphia based "Swoon and Croon" types-
a Honey Pot type who sat next to me at a bar...
chum em' up style..
always my reaction to the PACTORS set before - or aside me in bar -
OMG! This Alpha Male chose me out of everyone in the pub to talk to...as if I should remove a hand held fan to keep me from feinting.....
See Morea Honey Pot type who sat next to me at a bar...
chum em' up style..
always my reaction to the PACTORS set before - or aside me in bar -
OMG! This Alpha Male chose me out of everyone in the pub to talk to...as if I should remove a hand held fan to keep me from feinting.....
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