Sometimes the most familiar is the most peculiar. I feel this way about the Café. Selecting photo-images to send to the Fluxus-Museum to use for publicity demonstrates this to me. How to represent the Café in an image. It's like choosing a picture of yourself, perhaps: you never see yourself as others see you. How to capture the essence of an interactive and highly unusual performance like the Café?
The audience is right there...
... asking, ordering, allowing, anticipating, hearing, seeing, feeling, smelling, tasting (!), witnessing the event.
How do you capture such a complex experience in a single lifeless image?
The ideal photo record would have to communicate 1) a particular performance, 2) an audience witnessing it, 3) the performance space and 4) the unconventional actor-audience relationship.
How do you supply enough information to sufficiently define a theatrical experiment? How do you catalogue, display and advertise a non-commodity?
Sometimes the most familiar is the most peculiar.
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Some experiences are not captured in time-stilled moments. The Cafe whole is greater than the sum of the parts. How is that photographed?
I find it both fascinating and satisfying that in some of our photos you can't tell who is performing and who is the audience. Talk about taking down the fourth wall!
I wonder what the cross-cultural experience will be in Potsdam?
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