PRESENTATION OUTLINE
Robert Wilson is an American experimental theater stage director and playwright who has been described by the media as "[America]'s or even the world's foremost avant garde 'theater artist'"
“The way actors are trained here is wrong. All they think about is interpreting a text. They worry about how to speak words and know nothing about their bodies. You see that by the way they walk. They don’t understand the weight of a gesture in space. A good actor can command an audience by moving one finger” (qtd. in Holmberg 49).
Time and space, are "the basic architecture of everything"—time the vertical, space the horizontal. "It's the chair you're sitting on, it's the drip of milk in Vermeer," he said. The hand dropping down vertically on a key to play the next note in a Mozart piece is time; the moving along the keyboard, space.
THE LIFE AND DEATH OF MARINA ABRAMOVIC
PROPS+FURNITURE+SCULPTURE
