PICO (REMIX)

of SANBORN John

UNITED STATES, 2014, 01:16:00

Genre : Video art
Keyword : Music, Body, avant-garde

Summary :
If you took the musical transformation of John Cage, the radical thinking of Marcel Duchamp, and the media anarchy of Nam June Paik, and put them in a blender… the result would be PICO (Performance Indeterminate Cage Opera).

 
PICO is a video memoir celebrating the lineage of Cultural Revolution launched by the innovative avant-garde triumvirate Duchamp, Cage and especially Paik and their profound influence on artist John Sanborn.

Performing collaborators for PICO are dancers Joseph Copley, Margaret Cromwell, Carlos Venturo, Alyah Baker, Kelly Del Resario and Katherine Wells; composer Wobbly; sound artist Negativland; cellist/composer Theresa Wong; composer Luciano Chessa; architect/designer Megan Kelly-Sweeney; pianist Sarah Cahill; designer Leah Hefner; and Skip Sweeney and Roger Jones from Video Free America.

PICO (reMIX) won the Audience Award at the 2013 Mill Valley Film Festival, the Award of Excellence at the 2015 Canada International Film Festival, and 2 Gold Remi Awards at the 2015 Houston International Film Festival.

 

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