Warren Neidich’s Interview Project
(re-enacted interview)
The original interview between Eric de Bruyn and Dan Graham was held in New York in March 1967 and was initially published in Gloria Moure, Dan Graham, exh. cat., pp. 195-205.
These video stills are from the Interview Project performed at Magnus Muller Gallery in Berlin on May 24th, 2007 as part of a performance program entitled "Redistribution of the Sensible" curated by Warren.
The actors were David Egan, who played the role of Eric de Bruyn, and Anna Finn, who played the role of Dan Graham. The images show the actors re-enacting the interviews but at the same time a video camera was recording the facial and hand gesticulations of the actors and simultaneously projecting them on to the wall behind the actors. Thus, you had the live action and the theatrical distance and at the same time, the looped cinematic feed of the close up.
The original interview
Another re-enacted rendition of the interview was done as a radio drama at the Moscow Biennial in 2007. This was a live performance in which actors played the roles of Dan Graham and Eric De Bruyn.
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