Asia Society and Museum (Venue Partner)
725 Park Avenue
212.288.6400
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Yeondoo Jung in Cinemagician, 2009. (Courtesy of Performa, the Yokohama Festival for Video and Social Technology, and Kukje Gallery)
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Thursday Nov 19, 2009 (8–10pm)
Friday Nov 20, 2009 (8–10pm)
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Directions: Bus: M1, M2, M3, M4 to Madison & 70th; M101, M102 to Lexington & 70th; M30 to Park & 72nd; M66 to Park & 68th OR Subway: #6 to 68th St.
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$16 members; students with ID and seniors; Performa members; $20 nonmembers. (TBC)
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Internationally recognized artist Yeondoo Jung presents Cinemagician, which explores the relationship between the illusory effects of magic and cinema with the reality of a stage production. Inspired by the nineteenth-century French filmmaker George Melies, Cinemagician will present a live “happening” juxtaposed with a projected one. South Korean magician Eungyeol Lee manually constructs the setting of the stage that he is standing on, a camera will simultaneously shoot the stage, and project its feed on a screen hanging above. As the performance progresses, the version shown on the screen will drift from a strict live feed to one transformed by illusions only possible in cinema, leaving the audience to oscillate between the “suspension of disbelief” and a paradoxically ravishing spectacle.
A Performa Commission with the
