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They just want you to visit. They don't want you to do anything. Are you sure? Absolutely.
Person b quotes a sentence from John Cage/Variations VIII/1978 and misunderstands a workshop as performance.
By Jack Hauser
Bruno Caverna: Playing The Extreme
For people with advanced level.
Arsenal/Studio1
Date: 2008-21-07
Time: 3:45-4:45 pm
00:00
red dance floor/sound system standing next to 5 moveable mirrors
electric light from above.
on the red floor:
33 people are sitting in small groups or alone
outside the floor:
person a is lying in one corner
person b is sitting next to the entrance and taking notes
person c is standing at the sound desk
00:02
somebody opens the huge door (so that something from outside and other work can come in)
00:10
person c checks the sound system
person b moves to person c
person b makes a photo
00:15
33 people & person c shape a circle (holding hands)
first wide, later close (shoulder to shoulder)
open hands
everybody says their name and the rest of the group repeats it and claps hands (rhythmical)
00:23
the rhythm speeds up
00:24
a car crosses behind the huge door
00:27
a baby with mother enters the space for 50 seconds
00:30
person a changes position
33 people open the circle and move through space (look around and see the people)
00:32
33 people start talking for 2 minutes
00:34
33 people & person c jump in the air to clap hands with another person
00:35
33 people shape a close circle around person c who asks: where do you come from? / are you single?
00:36
33 people & person c jump in the air to clap hands with 2 other people (goes up until 5 persons are involved)
make an end by shaping a circle
00: 42
the circle opens (no voice)
at the beginning without and later with body contact
00:45
33 people run to different corners of the space while shouting loud
a coca cola truck passes behind the huge door
00:46
33 people & person c go to the huge open door (someone says: thank you for coming)
00:48
person a moves to a new position
person c crawls on all fours towards the center (while streching nearly every part of the body)
person b takes a photo
(someone says: okey dokey)
33 people are crawling on all fours towards the center (while stretching nearly every part of their bodies)
00:50
person c goes to the sound desk and starts Sigur Rós: Svefn-g-englar
00:59
33 people reach the center of the floor (saying: and ask yourself where are you looking at?)
01:00
person b shoots a photo and leaves the space
(July 22, 2008)
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