Re: <documenta X><blast> Reintroducing vitruvius

murph the surf (murph@interport.net)
Mon, 28 Jul 1997 13:52:51 +0100

At 2:03 AM +0100 7/29/97, Angus Trumble wrote:
>vitruvius says make-up is like architecture, it's all about tensile
>structures. vitruvius is a night-club personality, and my next-door
>neighbour. Her act ran for fifteen months at the Cafe de Paris.

I think I caught her act years ago in Corinth on a double bill with Patina
du Prey in the Spring of Glauke. St. Paul was the opening act, scolding the
population for their conviviality and colorful ways from outside the city
gates as they made their way to their seats.

If I recall, vitruvius created virtual tableaux of the most popular
Hellenic monuments of the day, skillfully articulating their form with her
fingertips, while Patina mimed Callas arias and wore the names of the dead
as her costume. They were a hit with the crowd when they joined as one at
the end in an elaborate visualization of the mysterious merging of form and
content.

St. Paul, like his kin Moses and Freud, bombed with the locals but was very
popular with the followers of Plato.

Robbin Murphy
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