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Comment by Mike Dickau on August 8, 2013 at 9:07pm

2013 CALIFORNIA STATE FAIR BANANA SIGHTINGS:

BANANA SLUG CLOSEUP:

ALL FOR NOW!

Comment by Mail Art Martha on June 4, 2013 at 8:17pm

Oh! I thought I had got into the wrong group but it seems not. Dean promised to send something to make Kevin happy. before disappearing.Kevin is my postman and he loves reading my Mail Art. So here it is what I received, held by my Becasine.

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on June 4, 2013 at 5:30am

Donovan's guitar adapted the Woody Guthrie slogan 'This machine kills fascosts' to 'This machine kills'. Suggesting....that

...either there weren't (m)any fascists around when Donovan was warbling, and/or he wasn't politically committed enough.

"There are things known, and things unknown, and in between are the doors." Huxley? William Blake? Jim Morrison? Ray Manzarek (who died last week)?

Thanks for the history, Erni.

Comment by Alicia Starr on June 4, 2013 at 12:56am

way late on this one. Reference to smoking banana peel: me too, but, we may have thought our perceptions were altered.

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on June 2, 2013 at 5:28am

I think that the smoking the baked inside of scarped banana skins was given prominence by Donovan in his mid-60s song, 'Mellow yellow'. I tried it to, but, as you say it didn't work. However, after going through all of the trouble to prepare something -- anything! -- to smoke, you often thought that, or pretended that, you were high.

(A related activity at the time was to buy seed for domestic birds, and then search through it -- seed by seed -- to try and find something that was could be mixed with tobacco and smoked. That didn't work either.

And don't even start me off on the search for potentiall-narcotic-but-not-poisonous-magic-mushrooms)

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on June 1, 2013 at 5:13pm

From the part of this I saw (I had to leave before the end, alas):

i) 'participation' referrred to the audience being shown a lot of photos of different sorts of art (paintings, happenings, events) that featured bananas in some way or another. For each of these, the participants (ie the audience) had to fill in questionnaire saying if they were art, or not. At the end of it, people got degrees/diplomas from Anna's Banana University

ii) I guess the bananas could have been eaten. As we all know, Donovan's 'mellow yellow' banana trip wasn't for real, narcotically speaking, but that probably won't stop people still thinking that such a thing as a banana high exists.

iii)  and iv) the research, was I suppose, seeking insights into what people considered art or not -- not just Anna's, but those of other banana-inspired artists. Or, in her own words 'Where do you draw the line?' between what is art and what isn't

v) from looking at the flyer, there doesn't seem to be a Mail Art element in the performances at the listed venues, BUT when Anna came to Maastricht in 2011, she performed at the 'Mail 2 Maastricht' venue.

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on June 1, 2013 at 8:11am

I was privileged to see Anna's 'Maar is het Kunst?' performance/seminar in Maastricht in Spring 2011, and it was great fun.

Comment by Dean aka Artist in Seine on May 31, 2013 at 3:59pm

From Anna Banana, but don't mention the ID card.

Comment by Dean aka Artist in Seine on May 29, 2013 at 1:38pm

Oh and K.S. Chambers starts out with a home run.

Thank you for this one K.S.  It is simply Bananas!  Love it.

Comment by Jen on April 24, 2013 at 10:53am

Welcome K.S. Chambers!

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