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Three Evenings by William Anastasi
January 22, 23 and 24 . 2015
8pm

January 22 - Dove Bradshaw
January 23 - Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta
January 24 - William Anastasi

Théâtre de l'Usine
rue de la Coulouvrenière 11
Geneva . Switzerland
www.theatredelusine.ch
free admission

      
Y O U   A R E


 

      
Narrators:
Dove Bradshaw - artist
Emanuel Pimenta - composer
William Anastasi - artist, author

Stenographer:
Kimberly Turnage

Stapler:
Céline Bertin


Curated by:
Bénédicte de Pimpec
Emile Ouroumov
with Céline Bertin





 

      

      


      
 

      
 

      
 

      
 

      
 
 
 
 
YOU ARE is a complimentary performance to William
      Anastasi's exhibition Six Sites, 1966, in which paintings
      of each wall hanging in a 15% reduction 'describe' the wall which
      was its subject. YOU ARE was conceived for three successive
      evenings in which three different narrators-a visual artist,
      a writer and a composer-describe the viewers. A speed stenographer
      renders the narration, a typist transcribes the text, an assistant
      attaches the pages to the wall. The first performance was in
      1977 for which Anastasi had invited John Cage as the composer.
      Cage asked him whether he could face away and note the sounds
      of the viewers. That transcript is published in Anastasi's The
      Cage Dialogues: A Memoir, 2011, and their friendship dates
      back to the performance and continued until Cage's death in 1992.

      Anastasi's life-partnership with Dove Bradshaw began in 1974;
      and in 1987 he was introduced to Emanuel Pimenta by Cage when
      Mr. Pimenta provided the music and Bradshaw the décor
      and costumes for Merce Cunningham's Fabrications. The
      three narrators collaborate on many projects and had collaborated
      with Cage and Cunningham in world tours.
 
 
 
 

      
YOU ARE
      is a work by William Anastasi made in 1966. It is more than a
      piece for theater. It is an artwork for mind. A mirror that designs
      our lives, everyday. It is a process that makes us humans, with
      our mistakes and discoveries. It is an experience which makes
      us conscious of our civilizational defense of freedom and peace.
      Despite its inclusion in an art project titled Theater of Operations,
      which may remind us of war, YOU ARE is an amazing and
      elegant poem to peace, discovery and enlightenment.

      
Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta