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9 Evenings: Theater & Engineering | Wired Tennis Racket
«9 Evenings: Theater & Engineering», 1966
Wired Tennis Racket | Photography
Rauschenberg's «Open Score» was performed on the second and ninth of «9 Evenings» in 1966 (October 14 and 23). This racket was made for use in «an authentic tennis game with rackets wired for transmission of sound» during «Open Score.» Rauschenberg writes: «The unlikely use of the game to control the lights and to perform as an orchestra interest me. The conflict of not being able to see an event that is taking place right in front of one except through a reproduction is the sort of double exposure of action. A screen of light and a screen of darkness.»


 
 | Flyer (front side) | Flyer (front side) | 9 Evenings Opening | 9 Evenings Opening | Physical Things within the huge Armory hall | Physical Things within the huge Armory hall | Alex Hay and Robert Rauschenberg | Alex Hay and Robert Rauschenberg | Bandoneón ! | Bandoneón ! | Carriage Discreteness | Carriage Discreteness | Kisses Sweeter than Wine | Kisses Sweeter than Wine | Open Score | Open Score | Wired Tennis Racket | Wired Tennis Racket | Solo | Solo | Two Holes of Water - 3 | Two Holes of Water - 3 | Variations VII | Variations VII | Vehicle | Vehicle | Legend of the group photo | Legend of the group photo | Carriage Discreteness | Carriage Discreteness | Grass Field | Grass Field | Kisses Sweeter than Wine | Kisses Sweeter than Wine | Kisses sweeter than Wine | Kisses sweeter than Wine | Open Score | Open Score | Physical Things | Physical Things | Physical Things | Physical Things | Robert Whitman «Two Holes of Water», 1966 | Robert Whitman «Two Holes of Water», 1966 | Robert Whitman »Two Holes of Water - 3« | Robert Whitman »Two Holes of Water - 3« | Solo | Solo | Variations VII | Variations VII | Vehicle | Vehicle | Vehicle | Vehicle

Categories: Theatre

Keywords: Festival | Intermedia

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Curator: E.A.T. – Experiments in Art and Technology
 

 9 Evenings: Theater & Engineering

Theater-Festival, Armory Hall, New York: In the 1960s, what would later lead to the founding of the organization Experiments in Art and Technology, was first put into practice on a large scale by ten New York artists as a unique festival for electronic as well as interactive performances and demonstrations. The idea of collaborating with technicians, not only initiated by Robert Rauschenberg and Billy Klüver but also organized and largely promoted by them, lead to the performances suggested by the festival title: Nine Evenings with performances by John Cage, Lucinda Childs, Merce Cunningham, Öyvind Fahlström, Alex Hay, Deborah Hay, Steve Paxton, Robert Rauschenberg, David Tudor, and Robert Whitman. Billy Klüver was again the driving force. The main technical element of the performances was the electronic modulation system TEEM, composed of portable, electronic units which functioned without cables by remote control. Cage used this system to activate and deactivate loud speakers that consistently reacted to movement by way of photo-cells. For not always being technically and artistically successful, these performances exhausted for the first time the full range of the live-aspect of electronics, taking advantage of its artistic potential in all of its diversity. Seen in that light, the «9 Evenings» rank among the milestones of media art, even though today only a few filmed documents bear witness to the event.