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MULTIMEDIA PERFORMANCE
Theatre • Cinema •
Radio • Television • Telephone • Internet
FROM
CASABLANCA TO LOCARNO
FESTIVAL
OF ELECTRONIC ART, MUNICIPAL THEATRE, LOCARNO, SWITZERLAND
2 SEPTEMBER 1995
http://www.tinet.ch/videoart/va16/multimedia.html
In
this interactive meta-media project created for the centennial
of the cinema, the artist offers the public an opportunity
to “rewrite” the mythical film Casablanca by substituting
the original dialog with its own modern takes on love and
life, broadcast on the radio. Scenes from the film are broadcast
without the original dialog and soundtrack on the Swiss Italian
channel RTSI. Instructions and lively commentary stream across
the bottom of the screen. Couples of viewers are invited to
call the Rete 3 radio station, where they are put on hold
before given 30 seconds of airtime to say their lines for
the featured scenes (participants are selected in the order
that their calls are received). The epicenter of the happening
is the Locarno Theatre, where the artist himself takes part
in the collective performance— supplying dialog for
important scenes between Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman,
writing text messages, and initiating visual special effect
in a carnival-like atmosphere.
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