David Antin
David Antin
David Antinis an American poet, critic and performance artist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth1 February 1932
CountryUnited States of America
thinking giving taste
While I don't script and I don't use other performers, I think my taste for underlying precision gives me something in common with Allan and George Brecht.
pieces world entertainment
The Sophists' paradoxical talk pieces and their public debates were entertainment in 5th century Greece. And in that world, Socrates was an entertainer.
strong feelings liberty
I've always had a strong feeling for the Statue of Liberty, because it became the statue of my personal liberty.
believe thinking focus
I'm aware of my audience in a way, and I do try to engage with them while I'm trying to go about my business of thinking. I believe they help me by providing a focus.
narrative different stories
Stories are different every time you tell them - they allow so many possible narratives.
growing-up fluency language
When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience.
thinking newton james-watt
I wanted to be an inventor, whatever I thought that meant then. I guess I was thinking of Edison or maybe James Watt. Or maybe even Newton.
choices pay language
You pay your money, you take your choice. I get the audience my language attracts and I lose the ones it repels.
editing jazz-improvisation procedures
There are editing procedures for talks just as there are editing procedures in jazz improvisation.
may entertainment language
From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us.
fails oral peculiar society
There is probably no oral society that fails to mark the spatial distinction of left and right, peculiar as this distinction may be.
chicken turned
My mother turned into a professional widow. She couldn't understand why I wanted to be an engineer; she thought I should be a chicken farmer.
came means meant telling thinking
Thinking while talking, and thinking by any means I could, which meant thinking by telling stories, came to me at pretty much the same time.