10 April 2013

Prepared Hammers

         
bLOGOS/HA HA is always interested in|visible means of support and the musics thereof - the tensioning of machine-heads, the plucking of strings, the striking of hammers... Slave Musics
          
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Prepared Hammers event # 
LE PORTRAIT DE LA PRIMA DONNA
    
Place framed projection-space
LE PORTRAIT DE LA PRIMA DONNA
on floor and leaning against wall

   

   
Above that  
- hold prepared nail to wall with one hand  
- hold prepared hammer in other hand 
- fix regard at point of hammerfall  

Duration : preset period or as long as possible
      

Below is a lithographic record of this tableau vivant - LE PORTRAIT DE LA PRIMA DONNA - as performed for Theatre of the Actors of Regard by a member of the preCagean percussion collective Prepared Hammers

 Paul Gavarni (Sulpice-Guillaume Chevalier)                      1858 

  
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 A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/

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 [LE PORTRAIT DE LA PRIMA DONNA)