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The US debut of Blixa Bargeld's The Execution of Precious Memories stars Blixa himself, along with his collaborators Nanos Operetta and Yannis Adoniou's KUNST-STOFF. Conceived and debuted in Berlin in 1994, The Einstürzende Neubauten founder and former Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds guitarist has performed the work in 9 cities worldwide--including Tokyo, London and Stockholm--with each performance based on treasured recollections of individuals living in that particular city.The San Francisco edition is a high-wire fusion of music, dance and spoken word that contrasts manic energy with palpable tenderness as it elaborates on the idea that while memories are always regarded by the individual who has them as precious, memories themselves are vulnerable to being fictionalized. If "memory paints with a golden brush," as the old Chinese proverb says, is it this golden brush that allows us to render them as precious in the first place?
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- Link
- http://www.kunst-stoff.org
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- 415-863-9834 (Box Office)
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