INTERMEDIA VEXATIONS THAT MORNING THING PING COMMENTARY REVIEWS Update 14 April 2024 PING
During our years in Tokyo, we sometimes visited a large bookstore (Kinokunia) in the Shinjuku section of Tokyo. It stocked, in addition, to Japanese writings, English language books and magazines. By chance, Roger encountered a Beckett short story in the British magazine, Encounter, and was fascinated by its radical structure involving the use of repeating short phrases with sight variation over, and over again. Realizing that the actual speaking of the Beckett text would undermine its ambiguities, we collaborated on a silent, visual presentation instead. I created stencil-based projections that laid out, sequentially, the entire Beckett story so that it could be “performed”. Here are some of the resulting projections which were transformed in presenations through the use of colored filters and optical prisms by a quartet of performers.