Comments on: Photos and video: “Piano Burning” http://locallygrownnorthfield.org/post/10638/ Blogging, podcasting, and tweeting the people, issues, and events of Northfield, MN Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:43:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Patrick Enders http://locallygrownnorthfield.org/post/10638/comment-page-1/#comment-83406 Patrick Enders Sat, 09 May 2009 21:37:39 +0000 http://locallygrownnorthfield.org/post/10638/#comment-83406 <p>Griff, I'm not hearing impaired, but I don't hear a “variety of pitched and unpitched sounds as the piano strings heat and break,” in that video, either.</p> Griff,
I’m not hearing impaired, but I don’t hear a “variety of pitched and unpitched sounds as the piano strings heat and break,” in that video, either.

]]> By: Patrick Enders http://locallygrownnorthfield.org/post/10638/comment-page-1/#comment-83405 Patrick Enders Sat, 09 May 2009 21:33:14 +0000 http://locallygrownnorthfield.org/post/10638/#comment-83405 <p>Brendon, It may not be art, but it would be a sight worth seeing. I wish I'd been there.</p> Brendon,
It may not be art, but it would be a sight worth seeing. I wish I’d been there.

]]> By: Brendon Etter http://locallygrownnorthfield.org/post/10638/comment-page-1/#comment-83401 Brendon Etter Sat, 09 May 2009 19:36:46 +0000 http://locallygrownnorthfield.org/post/10638/#comment-83401 <p>I'm arty. I was there. It was interesting in ways that I hadn't expected, but for most part, it seems that people just like burning stuff and watching stuff burn.</p> <p>Did I find it to be "art"? Hmmm... an almost impossible question.</p> <p>I think the point of most "performance art" - of which the original piano burning in 1968(?) was a seminal event - is to force the question upon the spectator: Is this art?</p> <p>I overheard that question, or a version of it, many times from other onlookers at this event.</p> I’m arty. I was there. It was interesting in ways that I hadn’t expected, but for most part, it seems that people just like burning stuff and watching stuff burn.

Did I find it to be “art”? Hmmm… an almost impossible question.

I think the point of most “performance art” – of which the original piano burning in 1968(?) was a seminal event – is to force the question upon the spectator: Is this art?

I overheard that question, or a version of it, many times from other onlookers at this event.

]]> By: Britt Ackerman http://locallygrownnorthfield.org/post/10638/comment-page-1/#comment-83245 Britt Ackerman Thu, 07 May 2009 03:15:26 +0000 http://locallygrownnorthfield.org/post/10638/#comment-83245 <p><a href="http://apps.carleton.edu/news/news/?story_id=526172" rel="nofollow">Carleton</a> paid for it. The piano was a "dead" piano, so I would assume the cost was minimal.</p> <p>I was there, it was pretty cool.</p> <p>Click <a href="http://apps.carleton.edu/news/features/?story_id=527578" rel="nofollow">here</a> for more photos.</p> Carleton paid for it. The piano was a “dead” piano, so I would assume the cost was minimal.

I was there, it was pretty cool.

Click here for more photos.

]]> By: Peter Millin http://locallygrownnorthfield.org/post/10638/comment-page-1/#comment-83120 Peter Millin Sun, 03 May 2009 22:17:59 +0000 http://locallygrownnorthfield.org/post/10638/#comment-83120 <p>MHMMMM just wondering if part of our added sales tax for "the arts" paid for this?????</p> MHMMMM just wondering if part of our added sales tax for “the arts” paid for this?????

]]> By: Bright Spencer http://locallygrownnorthfield.org/post/10638/comment-page-1/#comment-83095 Bright Spencer Sat, 02 May 2009 16:08:04 +0000 http://locallygrownnorthfield.org/post/10638/#comment-83095 <p>Piano burning is polluting, a waste of a good art canvas, and has been done before, just look on youtube. What was the point?</p> Piano burning is polluting,
a waste of a good art canvas,
and has been done before, just look on youtube.
What was the point?

]]> By: john george http://locallygrownnorthfield.org/post/10638/comment-page-1/#comment-83071 john george Sat, 02 May 2009 04:59:35 +0000 http://locallygrownnorthfield.org/post/10638/#comment-83071 <p>So, this is art, huh? I suppose a person can label anything any term they want, but I have a hard time connecting with this. Seems like I heard someone say something like not all entertainment is art, and not all art is entertainment. I think that is an appropriate application in this instance.</p> So, this is art, huh? I suppose a person can label anything any term they want, but I have a hard time connecting with this. Seems like I heard someone say something like not all entertainment is art, and not all art is entertainment. I think that is an appropriate application in this instance.

]]> By: Griff Wigley http://locallygrownnorthfield.org/post/10638/comment-page-1/#comment-83042 Griff Wigley Fri, 01 May 2009 17:01:09 +0000 http://locallygrownnorthfield.org/post/10638/#comment-83042 <p>Strib: <a href="http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/44150927.html" rel="nofollow">Goodness gracious: College student torches piano in 'performance art'</a></p> <p>Doug Bratland on Northfield.org: <a href="http://northfield.org/content/carleton-piano-burning" rel="nofollow">Piano for Pyros: video and photos of Carleton's "Piano Burning"</a>, with links to MPR, Kare 11, and the Pioneer Press.</p> Strib: Goodness gracious: College student torches piano in ‘performance art’

Doug Bratland on Northfield.org: Piano for Pyros: video and photos of Carleton’s “Piano Burning”, with links to MPR, Kare 11, and the Pioneer Press.

]]> By: Dan Friedman http://locallygrownnorthfield.org/post/10638/comment-page-1/#comment-83033 Dan Friedman Fri, 01 May 2009 16:55:13 +0000 http://locallygrownnorthfield.org/post/10638/#comment-83033 <p>I always find burning pianos painful to watch. Although I do see the 'entertainment' aspect, I always think of the amount of work that goes into constructing one. </p> I always find burning pianos painful to watch. Although I do see the ‘entertainment’ aspect, I always think of the amount of work that goes into constructing one.

]]> By: Susan Hvistendahl http://locallygrownnorthfield.org/post/10638/comment-page-1/#comment-83021 Susan Hvistendahl Fri, 01 May 2009 04:48:30 +0000 http://locallygrownnorthfield.org/post/10638/#comment-83021 <p>Should have known you would be there, Griff. I was there, too, and then caught the couple seconds of tape on Kare ll at the end of their 10 p.m. broadcast, which was led into with the words, "Piano Burning: Art or Destruction, You Decide." The highlight of the evening was when a few Carleton students started singing, "Piano's burning, Lord, Kum Ba Ya..." or however it is spelled. Did you happen to see any members of the fire department on hand, as sparks flew into the crowd?</p> Should have known you would be there, Griff. I was there, too, and then caught the couple seconds of tape on Kare ll at the end of their 10 p.m. broadcast, which was led into with the words, “Piano Burning: Art or Destruction, You Decide.” The highlight of the evening was when a few Carleton students started singing, “Piano’s burning, Lord, Kum Ba Ya…” or however it is spelled. Did you happen to see any members of the fire department on hand, as sparks flew into the crowd?

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