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何颖雅 elaine w. ho
小林香利 yukari kobayashi
杉本萌 megumi sugimoto


再現 Reenactment:
from Dan Graham: Audience/Performer/Mirror
(just to be closer to you)		 approx.
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audio excerpt, 15 June 2006, 14'09"
(binaural sound, best heard with headphones)
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Dan Graham performed this piece in various locations throughout the 70s. We watch, and we try to learn from those that came before. Sometimes we make decisions, but sometimes things just happen around us.

ダン・グラハムは、1970年代に様々な場所で、この作品を上演しました。今回、私たちは、過去に行われたこのパフォーマンスを再現し、またそこから学ぼうと思います。
2ヶ月前、私は髪を切ろうと決めました。けれども、その時、私は他の誰かでいなければなりませんでした。そして今、私はあなたの鏡になりたいと思います。
時に、私たちは決断します。けれども、また時には、物事はただ私たちの周りで起こっているだけでもあるのです。		 -
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A performer [three performers] faces a seated [standing] audience. Behind [before] the performer[s], covering the entire back wall (which is facing or parallel to the frontal view of the seated audience members) is [are] a [six] mirror[s].

PROCEDURE:
STAGE 1: The [first] performer[s] faces [away] the audience. [S]He begins continuously describing him[her]self--his [her] external features [thought and actions]--although looking [away from] in the direction of the audience. [S]He does this for [the duration that she is cutting hair] about 5 minutes.
STAGE 2: The [second] performer continues to face [away from] the audience [seated while having hair cut]. [S]He observes [the audience in the mirror] and then phenomenologically describes the audience's external appearance for [the duration that her hair is cut] about 5 minutes.
STAGE 3: The performer faces the [performer having her hair cut] mirror (his [her] back turned to the audience) [most often seated]. [S]He continuously describes [her actions and external features] him[her]self (as in STAGE 1).
STAGE 4: The performer faces the mirror. He observes and describes the audience (as in STAGE 3). [When they feel it is time to rotate, they do so, alternating every 5-10 minutes until the haircutting is complete and everyone has left.]
Further Stages may be any of the first 4 Stages, in any order.
-UbuWeb with [additions to the original]

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Enormous thanks to Iida Takayo and Hayashi Tomoko for last minute insertions.
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