Culture Cafè

Welcome to the Culture Cafè where you will be able to watch a different show every other week.
Today our guest is John Cage I made this interview (subtitled in Italian) with John  Cage on the 22nd of June 1992,
barely one month before the maestro’s death, in Perugia , Italy where he was presenting his “Music Walk”.


You will also find the biography and a list of other shows you might want to see in the future!
All you have to do is choose the show you perfer and then request your favorite by sending an email at culturecafe@fancyfizz.com  the most wanted will be posted here in the Culture Cafè.

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John Cage  - September 5, 1912 – August 12, 1992

American composer, philosopher, poet, music theorist, artist, amateur mycologist and mushroom collector. A pioneer of chance music, electronic music and non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one of the leading figures of the post-war avant-garde. Critics have lauded him as one of the most influential American composers of the 20th century. He was also instrumental in the development of modern dance, mostly through his association with choreographer Merce Cunningham, who was also Cage's romantic partner for most of their lives. Cage is perhaps best known for his 1952 composition 4′33″, the three movements of which are performed without a single note being played. The content of the composition is meant to be perceived as the sounds of the environment that the listeners hear while it is performed, rather than merely as four minutes and thirty three seconds of silence, and the piece became one of the most controversial compositions of the twentieth century. Another famous creation of Cage's is the prepared piano (a piano with its sound altered by placing various objects in the strings), for which he wrote numerous dance-related works and a few concert pieces, the best known of which is Sonatas and Interludes (1946–48).  I made this interview (subtitled in Italian) with John  Cage on the 22nd of June 1992, barely one month before the maestro’s death, in Perugia, Italy where he was presenting his “Music Walk”.

 


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complete interview :

Meredith Monk.mov
( 24 mb)

Meredith Monk - 1942

Is a composer, singer, director/choreographer and creator of new opera, music theater works, films and installations. A pioneer in what is now called "extended vocal technique" and "interdisciplinary performance," Monk creates works that thrive at the intersection of music and movement, image and object, light and sound in an effort to discover and weave together new modes of perception. Her groundbreaking exploration of the voice as an instrument, as an eloquent language in and of itself, expands the boundaries of musical composition, creating landscapes of sound that unearth feelings, energies, and memories for which we have no words. She has alternately been proclaimed as a "magician of the voice" and "one of America’s coolest composers." During a career that spans more than 40 years she has been acclaimed by audiences and critics as a major creative force in the performing arts.

 


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complete interview :

Joel Peter Witkin mov.
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Joel Peter Witkin 1939 -

Born in Brooklyn , New York in an Italian- Russian catholic family. Witkin buys a Reflex Rolleicord camera in 1955 and begins his quest to immortalize the revelation of the sacred unseen world. Seeing in the bodies and eyes of "freaks" the extraordinary and infinite will of God, in lack of original models Witkin at times recreates fantastic and grottesque scenes with bizzarre characters and settings full of metaphores representing the enigma of life. Seduced by mythological super heroes and esestential nonsense as proof of the manifestation of the devine. In 1961 he joins the army as photographer to document the dead soldiers. From 1970- 1974 he returns to Cooper Union School of Art where he gets a degree in sculpture. In 1975 he leaves New York and goes to New Mexico where he elaborates a new personal language in which photography and sculpture, graphic and manual artistry create the extraordinary language Witkins now uses to express his dreams and nightmares. In this 1995 interview at the Castello Rivoli in Turin we spoke of life and art, the metaphysics of the flesh and the influence Classic European art has had in his work.


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complete interview:

haring.mov
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KEITH HARING 1958-1990

Keith Haring born in Kutztown, Pennsylvania started to draw at an early age inspired by cartoons on television. He studied at the Ivy School of Art in Pittsburgh where he drew and painted on T-shirts. In 1978 he moved to New York to study at the School of Visual Arts and became a fixture of the East Village club scene. In the 80's Haring began Graffiti Art, decorating advertisements in the New York Subway with his magic markers a series of narratives designed with white chalk on the black billboard paper of unused advertising spaces. His choice of imagery included means of communication like televisions and telephones, references to nuclear energy, childlike bodies.He embraced popular culture and hoped to break down the barriers between high art and low art.Haring provoked considerable debate both on street level and within the art establishment.

 

 

List of Available  Shows:

 

 Brian Eno 1992

 Malcolm McClaren 1989

 Elliot Erwitt 1993

 Bruce Weber 1990

 Meredith Monk1990

 Ennio Morricone 1992

 Alan Ginsberg 1992

 Momix 1991

 Helmut Newton 1993

Phillip Glass 1991  

 Pina Baush 1993

J. M. Jarre 1993

Philip Glass 1992

 R.E.M. 1998

 Iggy Pop 1994

 John Trudell 1995

 4 Non Blondes 1993

Katherine Hamnet1993

 Kitin Munoz 1992

 Bill T. Jones 1995

 Moschino 1993

 La LA La Human Steps 1991

 Candoco Dance 1993

Kitaro 1993

 Linsday Kemp 1991

 Dolce & Gabbana 1993

 Ricky Lee Jones 1994

Marianne Faithful 1994

George Segal 1995

Grant Lee Buffalo 1995

Jan Fabre 1995

Joel Peter Witkin 1995

Laurie Anderson 1995

 

Look Out !

My UPCOMMING EVENTS:

La Mama Annex Thearter in New York City, U.S.A .
To be determined "Warum is er noch nicht hier? (Why is he not yet here?)" with The C.A.M. Art Co. and Evelyn Dann Dada dance and Dada words.

In Look Out! you will find interesting events and people who are doing things world wide that might catch your fancy, it will be updated monthly and you are welcome to submit your proposals.

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