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About this episode

John Cage's “4minutes 33 seconds” is an iconic piece of 20th century avant-garde music. I was amazed to find quite a variety of performances of the work on YouTube: many complementary, many created as complete spoofs. Needless to say, translation to video is somewhat problematic but perhaps, speaks to larger cultural trends. I want to take the slippages in interpretation, visual puns (both questionable and playful), combative rhetoric in the comment stream, video glitches and variety of other artifacts and reflow them into a process which interrogates the contemporary cultural implications of Gage's work. The final product is a performance, a live video remix (no audio) of the content found on YouTube via a custom 12-channel software mixer. True to the spirit of the "original", it lasts 273 seconds.Documented at (Warsaw, Poland)

• Release Date

  Jun 21, 2010

• Runtime

  05:40