Begin forwarded message:
From: "Eric S. Theise" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: February 17, 2006 12:11:15 AM CST
To: Silence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [silence] San Francisco screening of MACHUNAS
Hi everyone,
A bit off-topic, but I wanted to let San Francisco Bay Area silencers
know that we'll be showing a performance video of MACHUNAS at the
SF Art Institute, 800 Chestnut at Jones, next Tuesday night (Feb
21) starting at 7pm in the Lecture Hall. MACHUNAS is a performance
oratorio based on the life of George Maciunas, written by composer
Frank J. Oteri and visual artist Lucio Pozzi.
The screening is free.
There's a website about the piece at http://www.machunas.com/
Inquiries about the piece should go to Frank Oteri; a google search
on his name will turn up a number of email addresses at which he
may be contacted.
--Eric
Free Screening of "MACHUNAS" Oratorio Based on the Life of George
Maciunas
MACHUNAS, a performance oratorio in four colors, is a collaboration
between composer Frank J. Oteri and visual artist Lucio Pozzi. It
was inspired by/based on four key episodes in the life and death
of George Maciunas, architect, artist, activist and founder of the
Fluxus art movement, the last avantgarde utopia of the modern era.
Yellow: a young child in a Lithuania about to be extinguished by
Nazis and Soviets. Green: a teenager out of place and time in an
American-controlled refugee camp in Germany. Red: a revolutionary
crusader protesting the Vietnam War, founding Fluxus, and igniting
the downtown SoHo art community. Blue: a forgotten and rejected
outcast dying prematurely of cancer in rural Massachusetts.
The score ranges from Lithuanian folkloric songs, Baroque and
Romantic music, twelve-tone and minimalist compositional structures,
and a fluxus rock band featuring electric guitars, sax, banjo, and
a live radio.
We'll screen a video recording of the August 2005 premiere at the
Vilnius Contemporary Art Centre, Lithuania, where the main floor
of the museum was emptied, and the audience followed the action
from room to room.
Technology permitting, Oteri and Pozzi will join us from New York
and Italy after the screening.
Chestnut Lecture Hall, Tuesday, February 21st, 7-10pm
