Foursome
(2007)
With Dana Gingras, Tammy Forsythe, k.g. Guttman, and Marie-Claude Poulin.
Foursome, a radio work by Christof Migone in which he invites four choreographers to translate Beckett’s wordless movement piece Quad for a radio audience. They perform various attempts: describing in words as they watch the piece and then from memory, moving in space and on the page, circling around a microphone and then the microphone circling around them. The empty center which is avoided at all costs in Quad is here embodied by a piece which surrounds another without ever taking hold of it. Foursome is a disorienting, disordered, and disarticulated narrative where interpretation is foregrounded. A quadraphonic quadrangle where voices, paces, and noises are intertwined to concoct a radio portrait of a most un-radiogenic work. Foursome will be presented in four installments scheduled at two month intervals. Each episode will trace its unique trajectory, always meandering and provisional.
Presented by Tate Online Radio Art Commissions in conjunction with Resonance 104.4 FM. Launching as part of USB Openings: The Long Weekend 2007. Broadcast on Resonance in four episodes, launching on 26 May 2007 14.00–14.30 and 28 May 2007 14.30–15.00. Archived online here.
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