#Messingkauf

[glauconaryue]

The actress: *plays a man*

The philosopher: A man playing this man would barely have worked on the manliness in it, and we came to see many details we perceive as commonly human when a woman played the man, or to be precise, played the part, now as typically masculine. So in matters of gender, an actor, if he's a man, has to bring some of what a woman would give to a man, and if she is a woman, bring some of what a man would give to a woman.

(Der Messingkauf, 1937-1951)

Commentary: Bertolt Brecht was literally telling yall to do drag almost a century ago!

[dalmamag]

Sesler ya da daha iyisi, kelimelerle kurulan dil muazzam bir özgürleşmedir; çünkü derdi olanın bir şeyler söylemeye başladığı anlamına gelir bu. Derdini, aldığı darbelere ilişkin bir hikâyeye katıştırmaya, düpedüz yıkıcı olandan bir şeyler çekip çıkarmaya başlamış demektir nihayet. Gözlem devreye girmiştir.

Bertolt Brecht / Messingkauf Diyalogları

[studiozeroorezoiduts-blog]

In autumn 2013 Outset Greece supported the video installation 'Towards the Production of Dialogues on the Market of Bronze and Other Precious Materials' by the Greek artist and filmmaker Theo Prodromidis at the 4th Athens Biennale AGORA.

[studiozeroorezoiduts-blog]

Staged reading of the Messingkauf Dialogues at Lanchester Gallery Projects, commissioned by Jeffrey Charles Henry Peacock on the occasion of their exhibition CRITICAL DECOR : WHAT WORKS! (24 Jan - 2 March 2014)