Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

Appropriate Ending: Ben d'Armagnac's Last Performance

Appropriate Ending: Ben d'Armagnac's Last Performance APPROPRIATE ENDING Ben d’Armagnac’s Last Performance Chris Thompson IN MEMORIAM I n a few moments the Theater aan de Rijn in Arnhem would be full of people who had come to attend the next session of the Behavior Workshop, a five-day event that included performances and talks by Joseph Beuys, Marina Abramovic and Ulay, Carolee Schneemann, and a series of related workshops, dialogues, and political debates (Thursday, September 28 through Wednesday, October 3, 1978). Now, just before noon on Saturday, the room was empty except for Beuys, his friend the Dutch artist and writer Louwrien Wijers, and the ghost of Bernard (Ben) d’Armagnac. Two days before, on Thursday evening, September 28, d’Armagnac had fallen and hit his head on the side of his houseboat, been knocked unconscious, and had drowned in the water at the corner of the canals Herengracht and Brouwersgracht. A convex mirror, attached to the wall so that boat pilots can see oncoming vessels coming around the corner, today serves as a kind of makeshift memorial marking the site of his death. Wijers recalled that Friday morning his wife Johanna noticed “many people looking over the railing of the bridge. She looked in the water, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art MIT Press

Appropriate Ending: Ben d'Armagnac's Last Performance

PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art , Volume 26 (3) – Sep 1, 2004

Loading next page...
 
/lp/mit-press/appropriate-ending-ben-d-armagnac-s-last-performance-YHZLVSimkM

References (4)

Publisher
MIT Press
Copyright
© 2004 Performing Arts Journal, Inc.
ISSN
1520-281X
eISSN
1537-9477
DOI
10.1162/1520281041969011
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

APPROPRIATE ENDING Ben d’Armagnac’s Last Performance Chris Thompson IN MEMORIAM I n a few moments the Theater aan de Rijn in Arnhem would be full of people who had come to attend the next session of the Behavior Workshop, a five-day event that included performances and talks by Joseph Beuys, Marina Abramovic and Ulay, Carolee Schneemann, and a series of related workshops, dialogues, and political debates (Thursday, September 28 through Wednesday, October 3, 1978). Now, just before noon on Saturday, the room was empty except for Beuys, his friend the Dutch artist and writer Louwrien Wijers, and the ghost of Bernard (Ben) d’Armagnac. Two days before, on Thursday evening, September 28, d’Armagnac had fallen and hit his head on the side of his houseboat, been knocked unconscious, and had drowned in the water at the corner of the canals Herengracht and Brouwersgracht. A convex mirror, attached to the wall so that boat pilots can see oncoming vessels coming around the corner, today serves as a kind of makeshift memorial marking the site of his death. Wijers recalled that Friday morning his wife Johanna noticed “many people looking over the railing of the bridge. She looked in the water,

Journal

PAJ: A Journal of Performance and ArtMIT Press

Published: Sep 1, 2004

There are no references for this article.