Variations V

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© Generali Foundation Collection—Permanent Loan to the Museum der Moderne Salzburg

Merce Cunningham

Variations V, 1965

Video, black and white, sound, 47 min 11 sec

GF0002138.00.0-2000

Artwork text

An intermedia dance piece. In this work, the dancers articulate not only the performance space but also the sound space: As they near the antennae placed onstage, which contain focused photocells and a vertical capicitance-sensitive system, sounds are triggered from within. Electronic materials by Billy Klüver; music by John Cage; film and TV projection, with which the dancers also interact, by Stan Vanderbeek. (Video End)

Lending history
2011 Łódź, POL, Museum Sztuki