Word: conner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...made the address at M.I.T. on Friday, at a rally in support of AWOL Army Private Jack "Mike" O'Conner, who has been enjoying a sanctuary at the university since last Tuesday...
...Conner said that he sought sanctuary in order to "unite the people in our common cause against the government takeover in this country. I feel that for each person that joins our cause by the stand I am taking, ten more will get involved. To me this is worth every day behind their fences and bars. They can lock up my body, but not my soul," he said...
...1960s, several young artists -most notably Andy Warhol and California's Bruce Conner - have abandoned the paint tube for the film can, leading their fans to hail the underground cinema as the birth of "a new art form." Rebirth would be more like it. The first artists to experiment with film were the Dadaists and surrealists in the 1920s, including Duchamp and Man Ray. The most inventive of the lot was a film maker who, as an artist, is all but unknown...
...people concerned about the permanency of material things," asks Conner, "when they themselves may not be here tomorrow" His entire output illustrates the question, picturing death in life, the swift passage of beauty as an integral part of growth, with a chilly poetry that haunts the viewer like the ghost of Savonarola. Crucifixion, a 7-ft.-high cross with a black, rotting cadaver, skeined by a cobweb of raveled nylon stockings, comments acridly both on the original sacrifice and its loss of contemporary meaning, while lesser works recall that Conner tried marijuana in the early 1960s...
...moment, Conner is as bored with drugs as he is with assemblages. His belated artistic recognition concerns him very little, since his future projects are all for films and he intends his present museum show to be his last. Conner considers museums a form of death in life, a technique for embalming art so that people can avoid seeing its relevance to their lives. "Why," he asks with a smile, "should I participate in my own funeral...