Performance and Stage-Set Utilizing Two-Way Mirror and Video Time Dela…

This presentation confronts spectators with their own image in order to subvert the roles usually assigned to the public and the performer.

Placed to the left of the public, Glenn Branca, Margaret Dewys and Axel Gross act out a performance before a two-way mirror. Positioned behind the mirror, a television screen with a six-second time delay shows a view of the room filmed with a wide-angle lens placed over the screen. This performance has been the subject of a sound composition, Acoustic Phenomena, a condensed version of which was released in the form of a 45-rpm record for Graham's “Pavilions” exhibition catalogue at the Berne Kunsthalle in 1983.