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Like Beckett, Hofmann translates existential crisis into absurdist spectacle, a performance that displaces truth or verifiability.
You could call the presentation — described as "a meditation on light, nature and femininity" — part pop spectacle, part performance piece.
The form's greatest advantage continues to be that it allows for the maximum amount of spectacle in performance.
Now that mode, both seductive and serious, trumps a trend among contemporary artists, favored by art institutions, toward clamorous, hysterically clever spectacle and performance.
The "spectacle" or performance section of the union has called for a strike of its members, including workers in the theater, movies, radio and television, on July 8.
A parade, it was thought, would contain these disruptive forces in a public spectacle and performance, and it seems to have worked.
In his review of the Turrell show, Peter Schjeldahl of The New Yorker noted that this kind of installation "trumps a trend among contemporary artists, favored by art institutions, toward clamorous, hysterically clever spectacle and performance".
Her Drowned World Tour, which started its sold-out five-night run on Wednesday night (through Tuesday) at Madison Square Garden, is a 105-minute pop spectacle as performance art, devoted to the idea that Madonna can do what she wants.
