Black Zero
Black Zero. 1965. (http://n3krozoft.com)
Black Zero by Aldo Tambellini was performed between 1965 and 1968.
1965 was the beginning of the space age. Two years before that America put man on the moon. History was zooming past us as technology became better. The space age greatly influenced Black Zero because the piece itself represents the rate at which everything is changing and the chaos that comes with it.
As Part of Performa09 The artist Aldo Tambellini re-staged his work at WhiteBox on Wednesday Nov. 22. From an excerpt taken from a synopsis of Black Zero by Tambellini, taken from WhiteBox’s website:
Aldo Tambellini (www.I-italy.org)
“At present, BLACK ZERO keeps on changing and growing with each presentation, just like the BLACK balloon which appears in the performance agonizingly grows, expands and disappears. In BLACK ZERO, you’ll be inside of the black womb of the Space Era. And in that womb, the Black poet, Calvin C. Hernton, the famous African American poet will read his poems. The plastic gas-masked figure floats like an astronaut under the expanding simultaneous motion of the stars. The television monitors pulsate in their insane cosmic dance. One day the light and the energy of the sun will become ice cold and the enormous sun disc will become BLACK.” (http://www.whiteboxny.org/news/news_index.html)
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