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Not I: A Samuel Beckett Centenary Celebration
January 13 – April 23, 2006
This artists’ book exhibition celebrates the 100th anniversary of the birth of the Irish writer Samuel Beckett, and complements the performance of No Danger of the Spiritual Thing: Short Works by Samuel Beckett, a series of short one-act plays performed at the MCA on January 13-15, 2006. This exhibition highlights the fundamental questions that Beckett and other artists have explored concerning human identity, communication of thought, and the question of subjectivity. While the exhibition does include a Beckett work, it draws primarily from the MCA artists’ book collection and from the work of Bruce Nauman, who was heavily influenced by Beckett. The central work of the exhibition is the 15-minute play by Beckett, Not I, which is to be presented as a film to be seen rather than read. The exhibit also includes Nauman’s drawings for Studies for Elliot’s Stones and his film Slow Angle Walk (Beckett Walk) (1968) which directly draws from Beckett’s novel Watt, depicting an individual moving only at 90 degree angles. Featured artists from the MCA’s artists’ book collection include Marcel Duchamp, John Baldessari, and John Cage. This exhibition is curated by Tricia Van Eck, Curatorial Coordinator and Curator of Artists’ Books.
...at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago.
January 13 – April 23, 2006
This artists’ book exhibition celebrates the 100th anniversary of the birth of the Irish writer Samuel Beckett, and complements the performance of No Danger of the Spiritual Thing: Short Works by Samuel Beckett, a series of short one-act plays performed at the MCA on January 13-15, 2006. This exhibition highlights the fundamental questions that Beckett and other artists have explored concerning human identity, communication of thought, and the question of subjectivity. While the exhibition does include a Beckett work, it draws primarily from the MCA artists’ book collection and from the work of Bruce Nauman, who was heavily influenced by Beckett. The central work of the exhibition is the 15-minute play by Beckett, Not I, which is to be presented as a film to be seen rather than read. The exhibit also includes Nauman’s drawings for Studies for Elliot’s Stones and his film Slow Angle Walk (Beckett Walk) (1968) which directly draws from Beckett’s novel Watt, depicting an individual moving only at 90 degree angles. Featured artists from the MCA’s artists’ book collection include Marcel Duchamp, John Baldessari, and John Cage. This exhibition is curated by Tricia Van Eck, Curatorial Coordinator and Curator of Artists’ Books.
...at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago.
posted by jw at
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http://www.barbican.org.uk/beckett/home
I have seen many advertisements for this on the Tube and plan on seeing something. I've only actually read that trilogy of novels and 'Waiting For Godot', so tell me what I should go see!
I am really keen to see the films.
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