A Summation
Following Beuys, and other artists of the 1960s like Jerzy Grotowski, Summers inhabits the enviable position in which the subjunctive mode is the operative norm in daily life. That is, Summers' life is his art, (or as Summers would undoubtedly say, "Vec c'est moi!"). Similarly, like Beuys, (or Duchamp, for that matter) Summers achieves many of his artistic goals through maintaining a network of personal contacts and exercising a certain charisma both on and off the stage.
For Summers, VEC can sometimes take the form of political action.
Thinking of Summers' art and of VEC, we recall an illustration for a 17th century diving apparatus we once saw: A man walking upright inside a large leather tub of captured air pushes the device before him as he searches the sea-bed for gems. Just so does the subject of this article carry his self-defining art on his shoulders, uncovering whatever treasures his talents allow.
Or, as Rod Summers puts it, illuminating yet another facet of his art: VEC is "cultural intercourse between consenting artists." Perhaps that says it all.
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