| Struggling 1974,
Colour, 12 minutes, 1” master |
Struggling symbolically refers to the difficulty of surviving, funding and producing innovative work as a young artist. Donebauer was working in an expensive medium beyond the protection of a College environment in a cultural situation where a new medium provided no supporting structures. It also refers to the particular technical difficulties of making this piece. Donebauer
and Desorgher took as their theme the opening words of Genesis - surely
that must have been a struggle too! As a structure they took this
biblical creation myth as a metaphor for the individual act of
creation. These early works were still developing the collaborative
relationship between the two participants, and in performing an
improvisation together it was necessary to structure each work around a
common shared theme that defined the intellectual/emotional “mood” or
“psychic space”. They therefore chose external “themes” or “processes”
to trigger their collective sensibilities.
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