James Lee Byars
(c)scan: M HKA
Letter to Isi Fiszman (if the critical questions were gathered would you then have a picture of the contemporary problems of earth people?), 1969
Brief aan Isi Fiszman
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"isi of all my projects – question artist – is the most provocative – I didn’t realize the importance of question (either in ’63 when I gave away 10,000 tiny (1/16”sq.) ?’s in clear inflated Bags on strings) or just at Oxford, I’ve just come from the Princeton Institute for Ad. Stud. meeting Freeman Dyson whose question is (we’re receiving red light from the solar system (nobody knows what the hell it is) and he’s making a hypothetical star (most regular stars can’t produce red light) on paper (How to?) A Marvelous question - Anyway I’d like to collect the 100 most imp. ?’s in the world and for my week show in Europe - a poll system of T.V. etc. would be excellent - I’ve suggested it to Cladders please relay your understanding of my request to him. What questions exist in all of Germany - Can they be gathered in the museum - Can he set me up with a telephone system to poll the country for a week of question collecting ?? White
push button phones – lang. people - speakerphone system (very simple, in NYC $1,50 per month rent) which allow the voice to be heard out in the room (so spectators could listen) ???????????? Please ask him? If he can’t then can you at Antwerp and C Jeff on T.W.V. or just T.V. as a program and to ask all of Europe for your institute? It’s a fabulous program and if the critical questions were gathered would you then have a picture of the contemporary problems of earth people? It is a difficult process to get people to give you what question they have but a very fantastic effort. – Answer immediately? James Lee Byars P.S. Another good question is “Which questions have disappeared?"
