Parties / Partying / the Party

OLIVE BLACKBURN

1. Party Invitations

1.1

Interactive Social Contract / Rally No. 3

Meet the new gods. Experimental beer-backed currency. Hypno software. Guaranteed sincere love and excellent sex for all attendees. All the latest propaganda techniques and cult tactics will be harnessed to achieve turbo zen at the third and unforgettable charismatic show down. I’m your plus one.

1.2

comrades,

we are coming to town to smoke you out of your holes. check it: wednesday, feb. 8th. go tell your fucking friends. believe the hype. we would love to have you.

cheers,

the PR dept

1 .3

ALL WELCOME. Refreshments—stiff, copious—provided.

1.4

Invites you to be the party that we’re at.

1.5

Anyone who’s trying to come to my welcome back party, it’s all summer long on the corner of 22nd & Sanchez.

2. Parties

2.1

The party party

The party of non-partisan non-party politics

The party of slush-fund liars

The party of lost ground

The party for the continued withering of party politics

The party for total affiliation

The party for the circumvention of the party

The party for the evaporation of aims

The party for the infinite division of the party

2.2

A group of characters (A, B, C, D, E, F, and W) are at C’s place for dinner.

2.3

let’s be too much, every second of a never ending night. let’s make each second too loud, too fast, too hot, too close, too bright, too dark, too blurry. we want more, then twice that amount. and then we falter for a second, everyone disperses, and it’s gone.

2.4

Conceptual Parties.

Have a party for an hour. For the second hour, reenact the party that just happened. For the third hour, reenact the first hour playing someone else. Have a party for an hour which is documented by video. Watch the documentation of the first hour during the second hour.

2.5

function of social groups: killing time; jockeying for position vis-à-vis status, hierarchy; confessional

2.6

The people by the door are a bit uncomfortable. Please take a moment to make yourself more comfortable. There are some chairs here in the front.

3. After-Parties

the sounds of a failing legitimation. of streets overturning, of cars used only as shields. distant scuffles. the whistling of leaves. a soft breeze. the best days in the city are days where everyone has forgotten about going to work. too much to do. At the window, scanning, scouring, inspecting, discussing. to the desk, discussing, discussing, writing, arguing, writing. to the street, walking, lifting, holding, pushing, waiting, waiting, leaving. going downstairs, drinking, drinking, holding, leaving.

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