The Order of the Third Bird

practice session with Graham Burnett, Jeff Dolven et Sal Randolph for 12-18 students at different places in Geneva: MAMCO and other museums.

Public talk on monday, march 18th., 19:00 2013 at HEAD / boulevard helvétique 5, Geneva

The Order of the Third Bird is an association of like-minded individuals (together with an intimate penumbra of splitters and apostates) who work at the convergence of performance, aesthetic theory and what might be called “art appreciation.” Members of the Order cultivate inherited practices of sustained attention suitable to the occasion of a work of art, mobilizing these experimental modes of practical aesthesis in a variety of interventions and engagements. Formal exercises predominate. A discipline of the senses is pursued. Both learning and judgment are bracketed, in conjunction with a carefully controlled hedonistic asceticism.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IV5rE-RIgk
http://www.princeton.edu/history/people/display_person.xml?netid=dburnett

http://salrandolph.com/art/78/the-order-of-the-third-bird