White: |
So, someone asked me the other
day why we wore rabbit masks.
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Black: |
What mask? This is my face.
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White: |
Yeah, I wonder sometimes...
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Black: |
I mean I always thought I was
a rabbit, or hare, or something like that, but now you come
to mention it, I'm not really sure.
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White: |
I think I'm a hare.
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Black: |
Americans call hares Jack Rabbits
anyway.
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White: |
So was Br'er Rabbit a hare
then?
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Black: |
Hmmm, difficult to say, he's
a pretty slippery, trickster figure anyway. Like Coyote
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White: |
Well this is all sounding very
Joseph Beuys.
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Black: |
Except his hare was dead.
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White: |
Maybe we are too.
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Black: |
Like Frank in Donnie Darko.
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White: |
Yeah, he had that whole time
disjunction going on too.
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Black: |
That's a Pookah thing.
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White: |
Yeah? Maybe that's what we
are.
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Black: |
Except his hare was dead.
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White: |
I think I'm a hare.
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Black: |
Except his hare was dead.
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White: |
Well this is all sounding very
Paul McCarthy now.
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Black: |
Yeah, a lot of artists seem
to use rabbits.
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White: |
Go on then, name a single other
one!
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Black: |
Jeff Koons, Reuben Henry, Eduardo
Kac, Jo Tremarco, Yoshiko Sato, Nayland Blake, Barry Flanagan...
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White: |
I think we're getting sidetracked.
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Black: |
Maybe it's something to do
with the myth of the artist being a kind of shamanic figure?
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White: |
Maybe it's something to do
with getting sidetracked.
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Black: |
Like when you start looking
at things and find bizzare connections?
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White: |
Yeah, like lepufology.
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Black: |
Huh?
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White: |
Rabbits ... Po ... Flying Saucers.
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Black: |
Oh yeah, I see.
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White: |
You know, rabbit is a word
for someone who plays a game badly. If you do something
badly, it seems more real, less like a performance.
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Black: |
I always thought Bugs Bunny
was real.
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White: |
'Bugs' means crazy you know;
harebrained.
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Black: |
They say people that see pookahs
are mad too.
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White: |
Yeah, why did they all act
like they couldn't see Harvey in that film?
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Black: |
Yeah, he was right there...
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White: |
Well? Shall we go?
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Black: |
Yes, let's go.
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