Site (1967) - Robert Morris

Excerpt from 'Site', a performance by Robert Morris with Carolee Schneemann at Stage 73, Surplus Dance Theater, New York, 1964.
It was show twice there, on March 2 and 9. Later it was performed again, but without Carolee Schneemann (Olga Adorno Klüver replaced her) at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia on April 24, 1964. The last performance of SITE was on April 29 the same year, this time with Carolee Schneemann again, at the Judson Memorial Church, as part of the Judson Dance Theater's series Concert #16.
The work was once again presented in the late 1980's (or already 1990's) being Robert Morris replaced by another performer.


"Throughout his artistic career Robert Morris helped define a variety of performative paradigms, from instruction-based fabrications to re-configurable installations and earthworks. In his work with the Judson Dance Theater, Morris scripted performances wherein performers follow a choreographed sequence of actions using costumes and props specified by the artist. Although the format of his performance 'Site' is conventional, the action is anything but. The sound of a jackhammer emanates from a white box at downstage left while a masked man wearing work boots dismantles a plywood construction to reveal a woman lying motionless on a sofa in the manner of Manet's Olympia. After a series of manipulations of one of the plywood boards with his body, the man re-covers the woman and the stage goes dark."


text from http://www.variablemedia.net/f/introduction/case_morri_site.html

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[barbounofilos]

ο τύπος είχε χαζέψει.

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[LlberianGirl]

I didn´t know either. It´s great, thanks for sharing

[annoyme]

this is pretty darn cool

[FoamingChicken]

I didn't know a video of this survived