“Travelogue” was Rauschenberg’s first collaboration with Cunningham and Cage since 1964. His design, called “Tantric Geography,” featured a row of wooden chairs mounted on white platforms separated by bicycle wheels. At the beginning of the dance this was dragged on stage by a rope, with the dancers seated on the chairs. Over the course of the dance, garments and accessories were added to the basic costumes of brightly colored leotards and tights, including large color-wheel fans, tin cans, banners, flags, and chiffon scarves. The dance had an episodic structure, with the dancers engaged in a series of antic encounters and deadpan entanglements. John Cage’s music, “Telephone and Birds,” incorporated recordings of bird songs and telephone calls made to numbers with recorded messages. ⚡️ Trisha Brown “Set and Reset” was collaboration with Rauschenberg. Rauschenberg worked on the set and the costumes, and the score was by the artist Lori Anderson. Rauschenberg created a sculptural object that he called Elastic Carrier, and it hung above the dancers. It was stretched with a kind of fabric so images could be projected onto it. The images were stock footage that he found along with found sound, and he edited it together in this mix.
The Potato Eaters (1885) Vincent Van Gogh
“I have tried to emphasize that these people, eating their potatoes in the lamplight, have dug the earth with the selfsame hands they are putting into the dish, and so it speaks of manual labour and that they have thus honestly earned their food.”
EVENTIDE, Q&A at Redcat with the brilliant Berenice Reynaud shortly before she passed. Blessed to have known her and for her support for nearly 30 (!!) years. I miss her, her passion for cinema and her mind. She brought films to us in LA from all over the world. ❤️ Thanks for sending this photo Nathan.
Unbelievable! Lexi is the best performance by a child I have ever seen. I normally don’t like voiceover but this works. It’s a great film. “Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight” is relayed entirely through the perspective of Bobo (Lexi Venter), a white child who witnesses her mother spinning out against a backdrop of the bloody transition from Rhodesia to an independent Zimbabwe. Written and directed by Embeth Davidtz, the film takes place during the 1980 election, when Robert Mugabe became prime minister. On netflicks.
Marian Goodman, rest in peace. I had the honor to photograph Marian in her home and spend time talking about art and her life. I asked her - if she were to write a memoir, what would the title be. She sat quietly for a couple of minutes and replied “What a pleasure”. Remarkable woman.
Nancy Berman with half of my diptych “Maja and Elodie” at Marciano Foundation. The little girl in photo is a Duane Hanson sculpture. We made the photos at the French Embassy in Paris. Thank you Elodie Cazes (in photo) and Yvonne Lambert Gallery Paris. Great memories making this work. 4x5 camera!
