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The Execution of Precious Memories
November 19-23, 2008
Wed - Sat: 8pm
Sun: 7pm
Project Artaud Theater
450 Florida Street, SF CA 94110
Tickets: $20
Box office hours are Wed - Sat 2-5pm
Call: 415.863.9834
Visit: 450 Florida Street, SF CA 94110
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If you live the in Bay Area, contribute your precious memories to this process by completing the Online Questionnaire by November 1st.
KUNST-STOFF will be collaborating with German vocalist/conceptualist Blixa Bargeld (EINSTÜRZENDE NEUBAUTEN) and experimental musical theater company Nanos Operetta for The Execution of Precious Memories. The performances will take place in San Francisco and Los Angeles in 2008.
The Execution of Precious Memories was initially conceived by Mr. Bargeld and has been performed around the world. In each instance, a questionnaire about people's precious memories is gathered locally in area where the performance will take place, and then transformed through a poetic process into a performance for the stage. The objective is not a social study or cultural statement, but rather the interpretation of found text as art.
Theoretical Assumptions and Objectives
by Blixa Bargeld
This project is based on fundamental thoughts arising from the work on texts undertaken by Friedrich Georg Jünger, Julian Jaynes, Elliot Weinberger and Plotin. This world-wide work with and on memories - which are individually regarded as precious - is being carried out under the theoretical premise of the fictionalisation of memories. An old Chinese proverb tells us, "memory paints with a golden brush". From this we can see that memories are not just the result of an impartial recording of sensory perceptions. Alone the recording of one's sensory impressions falsifies reality to a certain extent, depending on the individual's specific preferences and interests. The processing of perception in one's memory increases these occurrences. As the Chinese proverb says, what we have perceived becomes fictionalised but as a process of beautification on a picture or text - and only then does that which we term memories come into existence, only then do these memories become precious.
more info on the project's origin and history at www.blixa-bargeld.com.
This project is presented with support from the Goethe-Institut San Francisco and the Zellerbach Family Foundation.
 Blixa Bargeld
 Nanos Operetta
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