Milan Grygar - Finger Score

AUTHORSHIP

Equal co-authorship: Milan Grygar

CLASSIFICATION

Classification: documentation -

DATES

Date of creation: 1982

TECHNICAL INFORMATION

Duration: 00:04:26
Sound: Sound

EXHIBITIONS, PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS

Exhibited / Presented as part of: Milan Grygar: Vizuální a akustické, GHMP - Městská knihovna, Praha, 17. 12. 2014 - 10. 5. 2015
Compilation containing the work: Czech Performance Art: Film and Video 1956-1989, Edice VIDA 5, VVP AVU, 2015
Attachment included with work’s publication: booklet CZ + EN

NOTES AND ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Notes: Film by: Dobroslav Zborník
Appearances by: Milan Grygar, Alan Vitouš
Digitized black-and-white 16mm film with sound


Adopted text on the work: Finger Score shows a performance of Grygar’s abstract drawing scores that he began creating using his fingerprints on staff paper in the 1960s. These art experiments were made against the backdrop of the era’s concrete music, by which they were influenced and into which they introduced a new dimension. The film primarily depicts musician Alan Vitouš playing the cymbals according to Grygar’s finger score. Grygar himself can be seen at the beginning of his film while preparing the performance with the musician. Nevertheless, the film is more than a mere documentation of a studio concert performed according to an unusual score – the consciously constructed scene shows ritualized behavior that can act as a distinctive artifact on its own. The film is thus one of the work’s possible final forms.
Source of text: České akční umění: Filmy a videa 1956-1989, Edice VIDA 5, VVP AVU, 2015
Author of text: Pavlína Morganová, Terezie Nekvindová, Sláva Sobotovičová
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INFORMATION IN PARTNER DATABASES

Artlist #1: Record at Artlist