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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., March 30, 2016—An art installation featuring music and text built around testimony from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) hearings that followed South Africa’s transition from apartheid to democracy returns to the Williams College campus April 4-17.
“REwind: a Cantata for Voice, Tape, and Testimony,” a multimedia production, was commissioned by, and in part created at, the ’62 Center for Theatre and Dance nine years ago. Set to music and illuminated by projected text and images, the work captures the communal and individual experiences of both transgressors and victims of the atrocities of apartheid.
REwind premiered live at the ’62 Center at Williams in 2007 under the direction of Gerhard Marx, with Williams Choral Director Brad Wells conducting. Today, the Gaudino program returns the work to Williams with an installation of seven videos, dispersed across the campus, that disrupt the everyday experience of our spaces. By bearing witness to the TRC process, the sounds and images challenge viewers to reflect: what are the costs of keeping such memories of collective trauma alive? What are the costs of letting them go?
This distributed installation includes video monitors in Sawyer Library, Hollander Hall, WCMA, ’62 Center, Schow, Davis Center, and Milne Public Library, each showing one of these clips, with audio available on headphones. The entire production will be screened continuously in Thompson Memorial Chapel for the duration of the installation. The production was conceived and composed by South African composer Phillip Miller, and designed by visual artists Gerhard and Maja Marx.
The Gaudino Fund, ’62 Center for Theatre and Dance, the Williams College Museum of Art, Williams College Libraries, the Davis Center, the Chaplain’s Office and the Milne Public Library are co-sponsoring the installation.
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Published March 30, 2016
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