Sunday, June 16, 2013

I sensed a great, infinite scream run through nature, Edvard Munch (1892 )

So if you are strolling along the Piazza San Marco and are a bit bored by your ability to be casually wandering in the middle of the day, and everything you've seen at this year's Venice Biennale just doesn't thrill you. Then I hear that the performances on May 31st at the  U.S. Pavilion, Giardini at 4pmand then at 5pm at the British Pavilion, Giardini are a SCREAM! 

They are also taking place on these dates at these pavilions:
June 1st: German Pavilion, Giardini at 4pm,  and at the 
Chinese Pavilion, Arsenale at 5pm.

June 2nd: Piazza San Marco at 4pm and at City of Venice from 5pm onwards

This is from their email blast:
Inspired by Edvard Munch's most famous painting 'The Scream', Mad For Real's eponymous performance reactivates this iconic picture into a live, vocalised expression of contemporary angst. Whereas Munch's screams came from the madhouse or the abattoir of the 1890s, Cai Yuan and Jian Jun Xi's Scream invites participation 110 years later in a globalised context of economic and social uncertainty. Resonating with well-known texts of Chinese modernity since the May Fourth movement, such as famous author Lu Xun's volume Call to Arms () of 1922, Mad For Real's Scream reaches across time and culture into a single, communal burst of humanity.

www.screamforreal.org
www.madforreal.org


Go SCREAM! for Pete's sake! …whoever Pete is…

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