Show / Concert
Guy de Cointet
Tell Me
23 - 24 Feb 2013
The event is over
Guy de Cointet was a French artist who emigrated to the United States in 1965. He was a key creator in the history of conceptual art, especially in his affiliations with surrealism and visual poetry. His work constantly explored the issues of the processes of meaning. He produced some unusual « performances » largely to do with language and which revealed the behaviours, positions and attitudes of mass culture. In 2008, the Pompidou Centre acquired the set and props for Tell Me, an off-the-wall performance on abstraction and language, and the way in which they are perceived by the mind and senses. This play was first staged in Los Angeles in 1979 and has now been revived here with the three original American actresses.
Guy de Cointet was a French artist who emigrated to the United States in 1965. He was a key creator in the history of conceptual art, especially in his affiliations with surrealism and visual poetry. His work constantly explored the issues of the processes of meaning. He produced some unusual « performances » largely to do with language and which revealed the behaviours, positions and attitudes of mass culture. In 2008, the Pompidou Centre acquired the set and props for Tell Me, an off-the-wall performance on abstraction and language, and the way in which they are perceived by the mind and senses. This play was first staged in Los Angeles in 1979 and has now been revived here with the three original American actresses.
Performance in English with surtitles in French
Developed from an idea by Guy de Cointet with Jane Zingale, Denise Domergue and Helen Berlant Produced by Centre Pompidou by courtesy of Succession Guy de Cointet / Air de Paris, Paris.
When
From 8:30pm
From 5pm
