TONIGHT WITH SUCHAN KINOSHITA
The second If I Can't Dance Tonight featured Suchan Kinoshita. Departing from elements from former works, Kinoshita went into the relations between the role of beholder, performer and artist/director. Several moments within the course of her professional life passed in revue. Interlocutors, like for instance dramaturge Igor Dobricic, seduced her into detours.
The Tonight event was concluded with a performance by Melanie Bonajo and Kinga Kielczynska, in which the audience was invited to join a trance dance. Listen to Suchan Kinoshita reading 'Lecture on Nothing' by John Cage (RT: 50 min).
The Tonight event was concluded with a performance by Melanie Bonajo and Kinga Kielczynska, in which the audience was invited to join a trance dance. Listen to Suchan Kinoshita reading 'Lecture on Nothing' by John Cage (RT: 50 min).
Suchan Kinoshita reads 'Lectore on Nothing' by John Cage, 18 June 2008, Frascati
Suchan Kinoshita:
I think this is a very beautiful excerpt of an interview with John Cage talking about music. He says: "When I hear what we call music, it seems to me that someone is talking; talking about his feelings or about his ideas of relationships. But when I hear traffic, the sound of traffic here on Sixth Avenue for instance, I don't have the feeling that anyone is talking.
I think this is a very beautiful excerpt of an interview with John Cage talking about music. He says: "When I hear what we call music, it seems to me that someone is talking; talking about his feelings or about his ideas of relationships. But when I hear traffic, the sound of traffic here on Sixth Avenue for instance, I don't have the feeling that anyone is talking.
I have the feeling that a sound is acting and I love the activity of sound. What it does is: it gets louder and quieter, and it gets higher and lower and it gets longer and shorter. It does all those things which I'm completely satisfied with. I don't need sound to talk to me.
We don't see much difference in time and space. We don't know where one starts and the other stops. So most of the arts we think of as being in time. And most of the arts we think of as being in space..."
Watch the interview with John Cage ON YOUTUBE.
