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Section 9 - Technology in Performance
(1) Monsters of Grace 1.2 A Digital Opera in Three Dimensions – Music by Philip Glass and Robert Wilson Design and Visual Concept - Programme notes by Philip Glass – Babican Centre, BITE:98 (Barbican International Theatre Event) A Year of American Culture – Inventing America
Robert Wilson and Philip Glass
A recent photography - posing in the same position as their famous photo from Einstein on the Beach by Mapplethorpe in 1976
(2) The two most useful sites on Monsters of Grace are:
http://www.salon.com/ent/feature/1999/07/21/monsters/
http://www.cyberstage.org/archive/newstuff/monsters.html
(3) Gesamtkünstwerk (Total Art Work) - the Wagnerian term is explained below:
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Theatre, in constituting the ultimate art form that creates this semblance of a ‘self-contained’ world, acquires a prominent position among the arts in this scheme of things. The art of the theatre is seen as exemplifying the notion of the Total Art Work. The Total Art Work is art conceived as a phenomenon; one that can create reality anew and encompass every aspect of it. Wagner’s notion of the Gesamtkunstwerk is one of the first attempts consciously to use the theatre to bring forth this ideal. Pg.31
The Mask & Late Nineteenth Century Aesthetics, The Mask by Edward Gordon Craig, edited by Olga Taxidou, 1998, Harwood Academic Publishers - ISBN 90-5755-046-6
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The term 'Total Art Work' refers to the creation of a world apart - the spectacle unfolds in front of your eye - to consume you. It is not the same as engaging all elements of the mind and body - it is about fantasy. I use the term with a 'refresh' button, to reclaim it for the new century.
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