"For us, the idea of having a work that has contradictions is very important—when, in affirming something, it includes itself and attacks itself. How can you put together all of these things that have nothing to do with each other? You use glue! Glue can be an idea, a word. You can use an ideological glue."
"Because We Must" (1989)
"Because We Must," 1989
Michael Clark, choreography
Videotape, color, sound, 53 minutes
Courtesy the Artist
Michael Clark, choreography
Videotape, color, sound, 53 minutes
Courtesy the Artist
"I really wanted to develop a story idea, and had written the whole story around the piece 'Because We Must' that was a theatre piece that Michael Clarke had done. So I'd written a story around it- a backstage story- about trying to solve a murder, in which the police are coming for the exits and having to answer questions..."
- Charles Atlas
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