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Article: Opera & video: classical music can offer art a new creative paradigm suggests Chris Townsend.
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- Art Monthly
- Article date:
- December 1, 2007
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VIDEO ART HAS, RECENTLY, DEVELOPED AS A PRACTICE THROUGH COLLABORATIONS IN OPERA HOUSES, OFTEN INVOLVING WELL-KNOWN ARTISTS AND WITH THE OPERA HOUSE USING THEM AS A BRAND THROUGH WHICH TO MARKET A PRODUCTION BOTH AS NOVEL AND TO A NEW AUDIENCE. * We have seen this in Bill Viola's work with Peter Sellars on Wagner's Tristan and Isolde, and with greater subtlety in Jane & Louise Wilson's contribution to a production of Michael Tippett's The Knot Garden, 2005. Much of the inspiration for this convenient extension of spectacle--even as it allowed new, and pertinent, forms of artistic critique within it--came from the earlier example of ...
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