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Suncycle
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Source: Jeffrey Shaw
Jeffrey Shaw
Suncycle
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1978
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Coauthor: Marga Adama, John Munsey
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Suncycle
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Suncycle
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Suncycle
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Suncycle
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Suncycle
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Suncycle
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Suncycle
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aesthetics
collaborative
contextual
real-time
sublime
visual
genres
performance art
happenings
subjects
Art and Science
dynamical systems
Arts and Visual Culture
fashion
literature
music
poetry
theater
Body and Psychology
bodies (animal components)
expression
movement
technology
displays
non-electronic displays
bodies (as non-electronic displays)
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Installation Requirements / Space
In 1977 Marga Adama, John Munsey and Jeffrey Shaw established Javaphile Productions. Other artists then joined the core members in the group’s various works. Its main activity was the creation of ritual performances that had a strong affinity with the ‘poetic cinema’ strategies of Sergei Parajanov, while at the same time clearly developing out of the performative strategies of ’60’s ‘happenings’ and experimental theatre.
These performances were richly staged and costumed tableaux, whose material actions unfolded as a series of symbolic acts that hybridized the sublime and the banal, the fundamental and the momentary, in a stylized and visually demonstrative manner that allowed their underlying esoteric narratives to be newly expressed in the contemporary language of art practice.
Each Javaphile performance was a collective, interdisciplinary creation, driven by the specific artistic practices (painting, poetry, theatre, music, mime, media art, etc.) of those persons who were participants in the production.
Suncycle’s underlying narrative was essentially a ritual of the movement from dawn to dusk.
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