LAWRENCE WEINER AND NO AGE

After I got pushed on stage during No Age in Brooklyn on February 11, 2008 I decided to pull the Lawrence Weiner brochure for his retrospective at the Whitney out of my bag and attempt to give it to someone else to read by throwing it into the audience.  I already read it, and it was time to pass it on. 

By the way, do you know what samizdat is?  What about potlach?  Oh, and did you know in an open letter to John Berger from Subcomandante Marcos he offers him a flower  from  Chiapas, the southern state of Mexico.  Or, he offers it to everyone:

We would like to offer you a flower, I say a flower because we don't have enough for all of you, but one is enough if you share it and if each one of you keeps a tiny fragment...

I once bought a purple flower from a  lady  in a market in Oaxaca.  I carried it with me in a plastic water bottle.  All my photographs from that trip, from the Panama Canal to Los Angeles by land, had been stolen.  Except for maybe a few polaroids of the sky or the sea or of a cow in Nicaragua.  It doesn't matter.  The point is this:  a purple flower in a water bottle.  You don't need documentation of a previous existing action.  You just go and get a flower and put it in a bottle.

A purple flower inside a water bottle.