{"id":1091,"date":"2006-02-27T13:00:47","date_gmt":"2006-02-27T11:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/27\/spier-bridge\/"},"modified":"2006-04-12T07:12:55","modified_gmt":"2006-04-12T05:12:55","slug":"spier-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/27\/spier-bridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Orpheus and other artists @ Spier"},"content":{"rendered":"
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So I was at Spier last night with some really cool artists. Not all of them made it on the same night, but amongst the ten finalists selected for their hotel art project are myself, Kim Lieberman, Mustafa Maluka<\/a>, Matt Hindley<\/a>, Usha Seejarim, Dorothee Kreutzfeld, Jo O’Connor and Nicolas Hlobo. Had a nice dinner among new friends, great conversation, perhaps some future help and collaborations. I’ll probably propose some Compressionist<\/a> images for the project – got some great scans on site before my scanner finally died (another one on the way – thank you, ebay<\/a>!).<\/p>\n

James Webb also joined up for dinner, and managed to sneak the two of us into Brett Bailey’s Orpheus, for which he sound designed. We had to drive over the bridge at right. Yes, that’s the best I could do for an image – desperate times….<\/p>\n

Sometimes over the top and obvious where unnecessary, and a few of the scenes could have been shorter to get their points across better, but Orpheus was undoubtedly a brilliant piece. The lead narrator, portrayed by Sibongile Khumalo, was an amazing presence with heart-wrenching physical character, and Orpheus (I cannot find the actor’s name) had the haunting singing voice of a dying angel (he did not once speak out of song). The set, the silence, the sound, the politics, even most of the parts that may have been OTT (over-the-top) worked seamlessly. A devastatingly beautiful rendition by all of the artists involved — see it if you can.
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