AUDIAanderson4 - Jerome Joy website

B I U S link image code HTML list	Show page Syntax
!!1976 — Engli-SH ---- — — ''Engli-SH — First performance in a foreign language - Berlin Festival, Akademie der Kunst, Berlin, Germany, 1976''{br}—— ''Engli-SH — Louisiana Museum, Humlebaeck, Denmark, 1976'' {br}{br} \|t \|t \|t \|t \|t \|t \|t \|t \|t \|t \|t \|t \|t \|t \|t \|t \|t \|t \|t \|t \|t \|t \|t \|t \|t \|t \|t \|t \|t \|t \|t \|t \|t \|t \|t \|t ''In 1976, Anderson prepared a new piece for the Berlin Festival, called Engli-SH. Knowing little German, she attempted a performance that explored the areas between the languages, emphasising ’s’ (actually ‘z’ in German) and ‘sh’ sounds. At first, she appeared before her audience with simultaneous slide projections of German translation as she spoke. But, after a while the subtitles went out of sync, and the performance took on a new rhythm. Almost every word had a ‘zzz’ sound in it, which became the buzzing of a fly, the noise of snoring, the resonance of bad violin playing. (Curiously enough, small sections of the audience responded by locking arms and replying with the own ‘zzz’ sounds.) Anderson also played a violin as she ran back and forth between two microphones, merging the images of crossing langage carriers and violon playing. The staccato sounds of the violin rapidly going in and out of the microphone’s range increased until they resembled the frenzied report of a machine-gun. Anderson then stopped to tell a story about carrying a violin case in Chicago. She performed her violin duet, and on an up-stroke she released the bow, which sailed to the wall, hitting a projected image of an apple, which transformed into the character of William Tell, as other images began to multiply.'' — {small}(Mel Gordon, Performance Artist / Art Performer : Laurie Anderson, In Contemporary American Theatre, edited by Bruce King, Palgrave Macmillan, 1991, pp. 198-199){/small}\| {br}{br} {br}{br}
Password Summary of changes		↓ ↑

[Edit] [History] [UP] [List of all pages] [Create page] [Erase cookies]