Oona Spengler
Fall 2007 Artist-in-Residence
 
Sataurday, November 3
2:30 pm

The lecture will consider three main subjects: the making of a documentary, the differences between film and live performance as art forms, and the place of the audience in art.  The session will begin with the group's personal experience at the WMC residency, and compare their expectations to their concrete memories. Through their own experience, they will question the confrontation of two different forms of art. What does live performance allow that cinema does not? What does cinema carry that live performance can not? Film excerpts will be shared.  Then, by inviting visitors to receive their impressions about the group's experience at the Watermill Center as a documentary crew filming the work of a Brazilian theater company, they plan to expand the conversation, by exploring the very important function of the audience facing art.

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