Charlemagne Palestine
Running n Chanting n Falling n Ranting
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Add rightsFormat livre/Cd
Year 2014
257 pages – 1 CD (45')
Artist(s) Jonas Mekas
Distributor Filipson editions
Description
257-page book accompanied by a 45-minute CD. A remarkable publication documenting the little-known video work of artist and musician Charlemagne Palestine, produced in the 1970s, through interviews, essays, photographs and the soundtracks of "Body Music I," "Body Music II," "Island Song," "Running Outburst" and "Tying Myself Up." Privately published by the artist in collaboration with alga marghen, "Running and Chanting and Falling and Ranting" is a wholly unique publication presenting the entirety of Charlemagne Palestine's video production. "Body Music I" (1973) and "Body Music II" (1974) were Palestine's first forays into video. They were followed, from 1974 to 1979, by a series of works that together constitute one of the most striking and distinctive bodies of performance-based conceptual video of that decade. As a composer, performer and visual artist, Palestine has gained international recognition for his music, sound compositions and influential performances over the past six decades. His lesser-known psychodramatic video works from the 1970s transform and extend his sound and performance art into the electronic medium. Through these pieces, Palestine activates ritual movements and vocal expressions (hypnotic chanting, screaming, moaning) as outward articulations of inner states. The very titles of these fervent stagings suggest extreme physical and psychological catharses, release and escape. Palestine's 1970s video works are visceral, raw, urgent.