Wednesday February 22, 2006

Are You Listening Mobsters?

Harper’s senior editor—and friend of Hanasiana—Bill Wasik explains how he initiated the short-lived “flash mob” phenomenon and ponders what it all means in the lastest issue of the magazine. Bill previously did an anonymous interview—conducted by Francis Heaney—with Stay Free! magazine. From the Harper’s piece:

The basic hypothesis behind the Mob Project was as follows: seeing how all culture in New York was demonstrably commingled with scenesterism, the appeal of concerts and plays and readings and gallery shows deriving less from the work itself than from the social opportunities the work might engender, it should theoretically be possible to create an art project consisting of pure scene—meaning the scene would be the entire point of the work, and indeed would itself constitute the work.

Posted by jim at 02:22 PM ||