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Einen Höhepunkt stellt John Cages erstmals für die documenta 8 in Kassel eingerichtetes Schlüsselwerk Writing through the Essay ‚On the Duty of Civil Disobedience‘ (1985/91) im Obergeschoss der Kunsthalle dar, die in der Verbindung von Raum, Ton und Licht Cages Idee von einem Gesamtkunstwerk eindrucksvoll verdeutlicht.
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https://www.kunsthalle-bremen.de/de/sb-page/sammlung/die-sammlung/kunst-nach-1945 (18.05.2022)

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‘Essay’ illuminates Cage’s sophisticated palate of techniques, ideas and references. Language has been transformed into its musical form, poetry, and abstracted to become pure sound. Individual words and their meanings may be intermittently understood, but without their sentences these words have been stripped of intended purpose and constricting device. Released from familiar phrases they, like the sounds of his compositions, are heard rather than expected. The seemingly austere installation stretches the boundaries of the medium; the requisite three-dimensions are expanded to embrace a fourth, in time. The lighting’s slow undulation arrests the attention and clarifies perception—each day the chairs guide our gaze in a new direction.
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Victoria Miguel, MAP Magazine
Text ist nur auf Englisch verfügbar https://mapmagazine.co.uk/john-cage (18.05.2022)