In this performance Eszter Salamon revisits John Cage’s “Lecture on Nothing (1949)”, a piece she initially engaged with in 2010 through her solo performance “Dance for Nothing”, which paired Cage’s words with her movement. This time, Salamon experiments with the modulation of physical movements, focusing on the sonic aspect of this seminal lecture on nothingness, void, and composition. She adds depth by listening to one of her past performances in which she repeated the text after a slowed-down recording by the American cellist and composer Frances-Marie Uitti, creating an auditory exploration of transmission and transformation. Salamon’s fusion of body, voice, and score sets the framework for a meditation on the simultaneity of movement and sound, and on interpretation.

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Eszter Salamon is a choreographer, filmmaker, artist and performer. She lives in Berlin, Paris and Budapest. Salamon uses choreography as an activating and organising force between different media such as image, sound, music, text, voice, body movement and action. Since 2001, she has created solo pieces and large-scale performances, performative installations and films. Her exhibition “Eszter Salamon 1949” was presented at the Jeu de Paume in Paris in 2014. Salamon's performative installation “Study for the Valeska Gert Pavilion” was presented at the 16th Biennale of Contemporary Art in Lyon in 2022. Her most recent film “Sommerspiele” (2023) premiered at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin and was shown at the Centre Pompidou Paris in 2024.

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Cast & Credits

Concept & PerformanceEszter Salamon
Music John Cage
Organisation & ProductionAlexandra Wellensiek, Embassy: Gbr, Elodie Perrin, Studio E.S, Institute of Speculative Narration, Embodiment
With Special Thanks toGrazer Kunstverein, Tom Engels, Lilou Vidal
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