Piranesi In New York
Located under the Brooklyn Bridge, the first of a series of site-specific architectural performances. The piece was inspired by the 18th century Italian artist Piranesi, best known for his series of engravings of fantastical prisons and classical ruins in contemporary Rome.
Presented on the Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage by the First New York Festival of the Arts. Commissioned by Creative Time, NYC.
with Pascal Brannan, Bruce Gilchrist, Julian Maynard Smith, Sarah Rapson, Alison Urquart
“There is some pretty startling imagery in Piranesi …the five actors build a three-levelled city, a constantly changing, jumbled collection of stairways, fantastic towers and block-house-style condominiums, or uncompromising ancient cliff dwellings. It can be seen as a treatise on a contemporary life that grows out of and is submerged by prisonlike 20th-century architectural structures.
But as the actors work, they take on surprising hints of personality…”
Jennifer Dunning, New York Times.
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The Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage, New York.
Commissioned by Creative Time for the 1st New York Festival of the Arts, 1988
An ArtsAdmin production
