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Dancing with Corbu

10 am February 21st, 2008 by Quixote · 4 Comments

The best modernist architecture ballet I’ve ever seen. (Update: the embed doesn’t work with this video for some reason, but here’s another clip, taken from the earlier frantic naked man portion of the performance:)

Clearly, the Bauhaus transparency fetish is being parodied by the set designers cliche use of aligned screens to create a tenuous sense of enclosure. The couple’s initial mutual obsession is soon disrupted by their architectural environment — its perfect inorganic grid embodies the modernist ideal as enforced by a CAD operator ands lacks the flaws and deviations of humanity. Thus, our couple is consistently marginalized, able to subsist only as peripheral props in a set that dwarfs them. But, Alas (!), affinity deals structural determinism a cruel blow when the couple conquers their space, dethroning architecture, and securing a place for human existence in the cold, functional world.

Clearly.

Are these things supposed to have a narrative?

Tags: culture

4 responses so far ↓

  • 1 pshazz // Feb 22, 2008 at 3:33 pm

    damn. vid is no longer working

  • 2 Quixote // Feb 22, 2008 at 5:00 pm

    Very unfortunate; I’ll try to fix that.

  • 3 Quixote // Feb 23, 2008 at 1:52 am

    Can’t make it work; you’ll have to see the wonder that is this trainwreck on youtube itself — use the link above.

  • 4 pshazz // Feb 23, 2008 at 6:09 pm

    daarn i got all excited when you said nekkid man. he ain’t nekkid, just scantily clad

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