Sun Feb 19, 2012
Low Concept
Performance by David Miller, Joanne Rice, Jed Speare, Cathy Nolan Vincevic, Alisia Waller
March 30-31, 8 pm
Low Concept is the experimental theater entry in the Art of the
UnGrand series. What might “experimental theater” mean at this point?
Being theater, it is aesthetically impure. Being theater, it has
permission to make use of pre-existing material. (Emphasis on permission
rather than requirement.) What is UnGrand about it? Aside from the
likely use of toy piano (but wait, that would be music), work on the
piece began with nothing. No High Concept. A performance built
inductively from widely disparate materials that brought themselves
forward as givens. Including, in particular, the exact characteristics
of the Cambridge Mobius space and its immediate surroundings.
Two readings from Eno’s Oblique Strategies: 1) Decorate, decorate. 2) Don’t be afraid of clichés.
David Miller
