Relive 9 Evenings of Theatre & Engineering
Cathy Weis and Julie Martin are organizing a film screening and informal discussion series called “Sundays on Broadway” at Cathy Weis’ studio, 537 Broadway in SoHo. The first edition, running May – June 2014, will present documentary films of the artists’ performances at 9 Evenings: Theatre & Engineering, held at the 69th Regiment Armory in New York City in October 1966. The films were directed by Barbro Schultz Lundestam and produced by Billy Klüver and Julie Martin for Experiments in Art and Technology.
All Screenings at 8 pm
Free admission – first come, first served!
537 Broadway is located between Prince and Spring streets. Press buzzer #3 (Cathy Weis Studio) and walk upstairs. Elevator available upon request.
Screening schedule:
May 4 David Tudor, Bandoneon! (a combine)
Remarks by John Driscoll and Phil Edelstein, composers and original members of Tudor’s performance group, Composers Inside Electronics
May 11 John Cage, Variations VII
Remarks by Laura Kuhn, director of the John Cage Trust and John Cage Professor of Performance Art, Bard College
June 1 Deborah Hay, Solo
Remarks by Julie Finch, choreographer and dancer, who performed in this work in 1966
June 8 Oyvind Fahlström, Kisses Sweeter than Wine
Remarks by Caroll Janis, former director at Sidney Janis Gallery, which represented Fahlström from 1965 until his death in 1976
June 15 Robert Rauschenberg, Open Score
Remarks by Robert Mattison, Marshall R. Metzgar Professor of Art at Lafayette College and author of Robert Rauschenberg: Breaking Boundaries.