DIALOGUE WITH ROTHKO — Carolyn Carlson — photo © Yoshi Omori
“It’s very difficult to tour now in Italy with its money problems,” Carolyn Carlson tells me, which makes producer Daniele Cipriani a brave man indeed: he is bringing her new piece Dialogue with Rothko to Rome, with workshops to follow.
Why Mark Rothko?
It started as a commission to do a short haiku or prose on a painter whose work can be seen in the Centre Georges Pompidou. I love Rothko, so I asked them if they had a Rothko painting and they said yes. That painting happened to be Black, Red over Black on Red. So I wrote 47 pages of prose about this painting.
Carlson often uses poetry as the starting point for her creations, so it’s not a surprise that the book became a performance piece.… [continue reading]
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