Kurt Schwerdtfeger: Reflektorische Farbrlichtspiele
Lary 7, Bradley Eros, Rachel Guma & Joel Schlemowitz

PERFORMANCE
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2020
7:30 PM

Microscope Gallery
1329 Willoughby Avenue, Bushwick, Brooklyn

$12; $10 students
https://microscopegallery.com/reflektorische-farblichtspiele-performance-feb17/

I may just be fantasizing, but I have this recollection of comedian David Steinberg doing this painfully funny comedy routine in the late '60s in which he played a philosophy prof giving some unfortunate Ph.D. candidate an oral exam.   At one point, the examiner asks sharply, "Who was Wolfenschmertzler?"   The candidate mumbles and stutters, obviously unfamiliar with that name, let alone any person it might ever have been attached to.  "Wolfenschmertzler is my greatest influence, the foundation of all my work," the examiner muses.  He then becomes consoling.  "That's alright," he says, "I didn't expect you to be familiar with Wolfenschmertzler.  You needn't know him.  Let's go on to the next question."  He pauses, then continues.  "WHEN DID HE LIVE?????????"  Just in case any of you are unfamiliar with Kurt Schwerdtfeger, he was a student at the Bauhaus.  His Reflecting Color-Light-Play (as we call it in English) was a student work, performed in Kandinsky's house.  But it nevertheless has been recognized as one of the most radical works of the Bauhaus and, indeed, of the 20th Century.  It uses a large hand-built cube projection apparatus in which performers activate stencil shapes and a switchboard of colored lights to form a complex, abstract light play appearing on its screen surface.  This will be something.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  You should just be able to make it, after the show (and you could easily go before), to the new taco sensation Taqueria Al Pastor.