I am sitting in a room: Alvin Lucier's 90th Birthday Celebration (1 3) from gala gala meaning Watch Video
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⏲ Duration: 432 min 11 sec ✓ Published: 12-May-2021
Description: Beginning Thursday, May 13th, 8pm EST and continuing throughout all of Friday, May 14th, ISSUE presents a streamed program celebrating the occasion of revolutionary American composer Alvin Lucier’s 90th birthday. Spanning more than 24 hours, the program features 90 artists staging their own performances of Lucier’s paradigmatic 1969 work I am sitting in a room, a piece taking on new connotations within the global conditions of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. A letter to the artist from his pe