 Event |
Conducting Bodies (The Experience is in Memory)
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| Venue |
The Performance Space (1983-2007), Redfern, NSW |
| First Date |
6 March 1987 |
| Last Date |
20 March 1987 |
| Dates Estimated |
No |
| Status |
Professional |
| World Premiere |
No |
| Description |
Installation by Merilyn Fairskye. Artist statement: "The Annunciation, the moment when Mary's fate is sealed, the players cast, a key event in Judeo-Christian history which inexorably determines the social position of "the feminine" in Western civilisation. Can this moment be dismantled and at the same time disorder the (phallocentric) Authority of History and Culture and the codes which represent them? The emptying out of the picture of the players, the various discrete and disparate elements in this installation, whose sources are computer imagery, military hardware advertising, a corporate |
| Description Source |
Programme |
| Primary Genre |
Other
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| Secondary Genre |
Installation
Exhibition
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| Organisations |
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| Contributors |
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| Event Status |
Completed
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| Data Source |
| Source |
Description |
| Performance Space Database |
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| Event Identifier |
142641 |
| Dataset |
AusStage |
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