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Civil disobedience 18495/19/2023 Cage, whose voice is manipulated by pitch and by speed, reads a mesostic (a poetic structure similar to an acrostic, with a vertical phrase formed by lines of horizontal text) that references Erik Satie’s Messes des Pauvres and ‘On the Duty of Civil Disobedience’ (1849) by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau. As well, six chairs, sourced locally, are repositioned in new locations each day. The installation consists of 36-channel sound recordings and twenty-four theatrical lights selected and programmed according to instructions generated by the Chinese classic I-Ching (Book of Changes). Writings through the Essay: On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (1987) is the only installation work by American artist and composer John Cage (1912–1992) it debuted at the exhibition Documenta 8 in Kassel, Germany.
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