[spectre] New podcast: Art gallerist, critic and curator Gigiotto Del Vecchio talks about some of the key aspects of The Living Theater

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*New podcast:* Art gallerist, critic and curator *Gigiotto Del Vecchio* talks
about some of* the key aspects of The Living Theater*: an attempt to break
the fourth wall and promote ideas of anarcho-pacifism and liberalism around
the world.

Link:
http://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/the-living-theater-gigiotto-del-vecchio/capsula


Founded in 1947 by abstract expressionist painter Julian Beck and actress
Judith Malina, The Living Theater was a group of artists, political
activists and militant theater-makers devoted to blurring the lines between
art, life, representation, poetry and political compromise. In New York
city, the collective became a sort of hub for various scenes, attracting a
host of intellectuals, artists and key figures of the New York context,
from John Cage and Merce Cunningham to Andy Warhol, Jonas and Adolfas
Mekas, or Allen Ginsberg to name but a few. For several decades, Beck,
Malina and their associates constantly pushed the limits of their own
formal language in an attempt to break the fourth wall and promote ideas of
anarcho-pacifism and liberalism around the world.

Gigiotto Del Vecchio talks about some of the key aspects of Beck and
Malina’s practise over the years. In 2014, Del Vecchio co-curated a
retrospective show at Supportico Lopez in Berlin, which told the story of
The Living Theater from a different angle, namely Beck’s past as a painter
and his radical shift of medium.

*Timeline*
*01:56* The origins of The Living Theater
*04:10* Moving realities: actions and reactions
*06:15* Preaching to the choir. Audiences and political art
*07:08* Playing with reality
*12:26* Scream for justice
*13:42* The legacy of The Living Theater
*15:43* The centre and the margins
*17:25* A space of intersection

Enjoy!
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