Charles Gaines Manifestos 2
Charles Gaines: Manifestos 2
Charles Gaines: Manifestos 2
Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Hotel Theory
Charles Gaines fills the stage with a nine-piece orchestra and large-scale video projection to create Manifestos 2, with a musical arrangement by director and composer Sean Griffin of Opera Povera. Gaines devised musical translations of four influential speeches using a conceptual rule-based musical notation system. The score is based on: Malcolm X’s last public speech, made in 1965 in Detroit’s Ford Auditorium; Peace, Power, Righteousness: An Indigenous Manifesto (1999) by Canadian Mohawk scholar and activist Taiaiake Alfred; Raúl Alcaraz and Daniel Carrillo’s Indocumentalismo Manifesto, an Emerging Socio-Political Ideological Identity (2010); and Olympe DeGouges’s 1791 Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen. Manifestos 2, the second in a series of works by Gaines based on influential historical speeches, was premiered at NY MOMA in 2014.
Hotel Theory is supported by an Emily Hall Tremaine Exhibition Award.
Date/Time | G | M/ST | CA |
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WED 12/09 8:30 pm | $25 | $20 | $12 |
G - General Audience
M - REDCAT Members
ST - Students
CA - CalArts Students/Faculty/Staff