Thursday, February 15, 2007

Bob Rauschenberg: AMERICA

Along the lines of my previous post, I set out to find some information/links that would be useful in terms of Mee's work with Rauschenberg. I found that the A.R.T.'s mainpage for their production of "bobrauschenbergamerica" this past fall served as a rather useful portal. It's got pictures of director Anne Bogart's productionn (she was the one who created this piece along with Mee and in association with the SITI company), videos, and reviews or the play. The link for that is:

http://www.amrep.org/bob

Pay particular attention to the video that the A.R.T. prepared as an introduction to the production. It's about a 10 minute mini-documentary. If you get to see it, pay paticular attention to Bogart's reference to Rauschenberg's technique of "assemblage". This video is a great introductiory resource if you want to lear a bit about Bob's collages (it's got some videos/pics of his pieces), Mee's play inspired by his work (again, the clips from the production are great) and about the collaborative process that was necessary to create this piece. If nothing else, at least take a look at the video! Here's the link in case you can't find the on the other page:

http://www.amrep.org/bob/av/video22MB.mov

Hope you enjoy it!

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