Word: visual
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Much of Kodo's performance is visual; beauty of style and sound meld in "Yae-No-Furyu" and "Yamauta." In the latter, one performer approaches a drum measuring eight feet across, elevated on a platform strung with lanterns. Accompanied only by a mournful flute and finger cymbals, the drummer slams his mallets into this colossal drum, invoking not only the sounds, but the surging rage...
This willful approach paid off; through visual puns and analogies, the photographs play with the physicality of objects--books, paintings, objets d'art--not usually thought of as wholly physical. Morell delights in the frame of an oil portrait, the ghost negative of light on a color plate viewed at the wrong angle, the way the curve of the page interrupts an engraving. His choice of objects, often the kind that might arouse an antiquarian's obscure joy, recall the contents of Joseph Cornell's boxes, but the mood is different, more curious than nostalgic...
...camera obscura series enchants with the sheer oddness of the resulting images, of skyscrapers bending at the angle where wall joins ceiling and three-deckers turned upside-down. Visual puns--like the Empire State Building, reclining suggestively across a hotel bed--sharpen the images. The very long exposures Morell used for these make for curious effects, such as the atomic radiance of the digital alarm clock in "Camera obscura image of Times Square in hotel room...
...when the Deathmatch must be forced to an end, a stalemate ensues. Neither Morissette nor Manson ever wins because both performances failed to outlast the moment. Neither of them loses because the musical and visual display titillated the senses, pleasing the immediate need for entertainment and the escape from the daily monotony. Their only chance of being indelible, and ultimately their only chance at Deathmatch victory, lies in the realm of CD and radio where they must be relegated. There, they can seize the banners of creative intuition and expression to supersede the notion that their live efforts lack evocative...
Stop by the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum as it commemorates the 36th anniversary of the nation's civil rights struggle by presenting a series of films from its audio-visual archives. The films will be shown at 10 a.m., 12 p.m. and 2 p.m., and include rarely seen footage of the demonstrations in Birmingham, Ala., and Kennedy's televised civil rights address...