Black Zero (1965)Aldo Tambellini and Christoph Draeger
| Nov ’09 |
| 22 |
| 6:00 pm |
The critically acclaimed “Black Zero” (1965) by Aldo Tambellini, in 1965 was one of the very first multimedia performances. It will be recreated 44 years later in its original form by all the artists who were involved in its creation.
“Black Zero, a Space-Light-Sound Event, is a live production in which the eye and the ear is charged with the shifting, changing, exploding images of our time. Flashing Lumagrams, hand painted projections by Aldo Tambellini, the rotations of Ron Hahne’s Spiral Machine sliding across moving screens, Benn Morea’s clamorous machines, the strident sounds of Bill Dixon and Alan Silva on horn and bass, the hard reality of black poet, Calvin C. Herton, flashing light and gas-masked heads form a continuous experience in Space, Light and Sound.”—News from the Bridge, November 23, 1965
“The new avant-garde if cinema (light play) has moved 10 years forward into explorations….their dreams are so much farther advanced than the rest of the human activities that it will take at least another 10 years, maybe to catch up with the artist and to create proper tools to enable him to put those dreams into reality.” —Jonas Mekas, The Village Voice, December 2, 1965
Curated by Christoph Draeger.
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