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9 EVENINGS: THEATRE & ENGINEERING

February 6 – February 8

“9 Evenings: Theatre & Engineering” was a series of performances presented by Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.) in October 1966 at the 69th Regiment Armory in New York City. Robert Rauschenberg and Billy Klüver organized the project, which provided ten selected artists the opportunity to collaborate with engineers and scientists from Bell Telephone Laboratories. The artists and over thirty engineers worked together across a period of ten months to create performances incorporating new technology. Artists included John Cage, Lucinda Childs, Öyvind Fahlström, Alex Hay, Deborah Hay, Steve Paxton, Yvonne Rainer, Robert Rauschenberg, David Tudor, and Robert Whitman.

Beginning in 1996, E.A.T. undertook a film preservation and presentation project to make ten films that reconstructed each of the artists’ performances as faithfully as the film and sound material from the 1966 performances permitted. Each film also includes a documentary section featuring interviews with the artists and engineers, along with additional material. The series of ten individual artist films will be presented at Anthology across five screenings, each with an introduction by Julie Martin and Morgan Griffin, and with a special panel discussion to follow the final Sunday screening.

The films are directed by Barbro Schultz Lundestam and Julie Martin, edited by Barbro Schultz Lundestam, Julie Martin, and Ken Weissman, and were produced, from 1996-2013, by Billy Klüver and Julie Martin for Experiments in Art and Technology.

The screening of Program 5 on Sun, Feb 8 at 6:30 will be followed by a panel discussion featuring Morgan Griffin, Julie Martin, Wendy Perron, Mimi Gross, and Yvonne Rainer!

Click here to buy a special $40 pass for all five programs in the series (the “9 Evenings Series Pass” option is available on the ticketing page for Program 5, but the ticket will be good for all five programs).

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