Legacy, 1988, Cleveland, Cleveland Public Theater, edited video documentation

Legacy, 1988, Cleveland, Cleveland Public Theater, edited video documentation

Lynn Book’s original, multimedia performance work Legacy, originally titled “Leg(s)eee!!”, premiered at the Cleveland Public Theater, Cleveland, OH in 1988. This project followed from “Standing In” (1987), and more fully developed some of the themes and staging within the context of an Artist Residency at the Cleveland Institute of Art. The performance included faculty and 3 students in the production of this and another shorter work titled, “Well of Miss Thriplow”, also performed at the Cleveland Public Theater as a culmination of the residency. Legacy ran about 45 minutes as a live performance. This 22 minute, 44 second video documentation was shot and edited by filmmaker and artist Dawn Wiedemann. The performance was the first of what the artist saw as a trilogy of works concerned with the cultural construction of the feminine within a patriarchal system. Book was invested in exploring these themes and concepts in a multimodal way through text, image, sound, action and staging. She collaborated with sound designer Lou Mallozzi to co-compose “The Shadow of the World”, drawn from a passage from Jean Genet’s “The Thief’s Journal”. Book was collaborating with experimental filmmaker, Sharon Couzin to create a 16mm film ‘portrait’ entitled, “Bouquet”, which premiered at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. A short film passage from that film was projected during the live performance.

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Lynn Book Projects
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2021-04-23T01:29:11Z

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