Week 10 Flashcards

Ariane Mnouchkine

Ariane Mnouchkine Art

Jeff Koons, Michael Jackson and Bubbles (1988, from the “Banality” series), sold in 2001 for $5.6 million

Peter Brook

Peter Brook’s Mahabharata, staged at the Bouffes du Nord in 1987

Vandalism/Street Art

Sherrie Levine, Fountain: After Marcel Duchamp (1991)

The Berlin Wall

The streets of Tel Aviv

The Wooster Group, House/Lights (dir. Elizabeth LeCompte, 1997)
- reworks Gertrude Stein, Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights (1938)
- which reworks Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust (1806)
Sources include:
Joseph Mawra, Olga’s House of Shame (1961)
Mel Brooks, Young Frankenstein (1974)
I Love Lucy episode 19
Señor Wences, Spanish ventriloquist
Johnny Cash, “Ring of Fire”
Busby Berkeley dance numbers

“Yellow Peril: Reconsidered” (1990) touring exhibition and catalogue of Asian-Canadian media artists, organized by Paul Wong

Still from Helen Lee, Sally’s Beauty Spot (16mm film, Canada, 1990)