Lies, all lies!
"Video is a lie. The compact disc is a lie. The internet is a lie. Television is a lie. I love them all. All are the past masquerading as the present. All are dead, electronically feigning life. They fool us into thinking that they are contemporaneous with our lives, that they are entertaining us and connecting us, right now, all together.
But they're not. Electronic media separate us, make us live in the past. Strip the electronic gloss from your Trinitron and you realize you're staring at the equivalent of crumbling parchment."
-Choreographer Mark Morris, excerpted from his address at the Midwest Arts Conference, Cleveland, Ohio, September 17, 1998. Source: Mark Morris Dance Group, Celebrating Twenty-five Years.
No comments:
Post a Comment