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Evaluation
--> 28th May 2013
--> 28th May 2013
The
Bride and the Bachelors
Duchamp with Cage, Cunningham, Rauschenberg and Johns
Barbican Art Gallery, London
Duchamp with Cage, Cunningham, Rauschenberg and Johns
Barbican Art Gallery, London
“Dancing Around Duchamp’s rich programme
includes Robert
Wilson’s theatrical interpretation of John Cage’s 1959 Lecture
on Nothing, surreal and absurdist theatre with plays by Jarry and Ionesco and an adaptation of Beckett’s novella Watt, a film season that takes a cue from
Duchamp’s Dadaist sensibility, live performances of Cage and Cunningham pieces in the gallery
space, a new Curve
project by Canadian artist Geoffrey Farmer and a major public event exploring the legacy
of Duchamp.’
Barbican
web page.
‘Dancing
Around Duchamp’ is a major multi-disciplinary season of events
across visual art, dance, theatre, film and music. It brings together key
figures of the avant-garde with a shared Dadaist or absurdist sensibility who
changed the course of 20th-century art.
The
work in this exhibition explores the humour and playfulness of the artist’s
ideas, and provokes questions about how they relate to contemporary art today.
While
visiting this exhibition I became aware of the work of the composer John Cage.
Merce
Cunningham & John Cage: Roaratorio (1986) at BAM
The music on this reminded of the music I have made.
This also reminds me of the performances in the THE TANKS, Art in Action at Tate Modern
Which
I saw in December 2012
Thinking about what visuals would work best, I found the actual imagery I had recorded did not work because they distracted from the sounds I had composed. I was interested in ‘
In ‘’ there is a list of instruments used, I think this is a good idea and though I might do it on my film.
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