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...America, the idea of modern genocide is a surreal collage??distorted and unreal, comprised primarily of memoirs about the Holocaust or Khmer Rouge, and pieced together and shaded with the green of “Save Darfur” T-shirts. But in Horacio Castellanos Moya’s “Senselessness,” genocide—real genocide—is far from this abstract idea; it’s rooted in gritty details. Moya does not try to understand “genocide,” but rather examines the notion of genocide...
...with typewritten words out of their “second mouth,” as Schneemann called the vagina. In “Body Collage,” another short film, a naked Schneemann covers herself in wallpaper paste and rolls around in shredded paper. “Body Collage?? was greeted with intermittent laughter from the audience—a reaction that pleased Schneemann. “Often I have to make something funny to make sure I’m not going to hit the audience over the head with this nightmare...
...Think of this as a kind of exorcism—a way to show multiple perspectives of sound and image. Plus there’s the whole idea of ambient cinema. I come out of a tradition of collage??Harry Smith, Marcel Duchamp, Charles Ives, all European/Anglo American traditions, meet stuff like GrandMaster Flash, Afrika Bambaata and the Bomb Squad that produced Public Enemy. Plus I remix old blues records for the show as well. The idea is to apply DJ technique to cinema, but to keep things well chilled...
Given the merits of the production’s highest points of ingenuity and creativity, it comes as a disappointment that the show’s culminating achievement—the oft-cited descent of a crepe paper ceiling that swallows the audience into a psychadellic human collage??rests solely (and literally) in the hands of the audience. The performers demonstrate that they are capable of carrying the experience on their own performative merits, so we must wonder why they do not even attempt to do so in the equivalent of their 11 o’clock number...
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