Teach Me to Play 1948
Live performance (15 min)
"Do you play Piano? Can you teach me how to play this piece?" I said.
"A piece from 1948?" he said.
"Yes, ‘Dream from 1948’ by John Cage."
This performance shows the process of learning and teaching without verbal communication. Through silent instruction and visual repetition I learned the imported knowledge. The act of learning, stretched through performance opens a dialectical exchange without words to promote new meanings and possible reads. Intentional or unintentional errors and offkey playing, push the limit of Cage’s original score beyond its signification to a larger political history of the year it was made.