Fiona Banner
dal 30/3/2012 al 30/3/2012
Segnalato da
30/3/2012
Fiona Banner
The Purcell Room, London
The artist presents the first ever performance of Orson Welles' screenplay Heart of Darkness. It is part of Artangel's A Room for London programme where the boat becomes an extraordinary temporary studio for writers, musicians and artists throughout 2012.
Fiona Banner presents the first ever performance of Orson Welles' screenplay Heart of Darkness. Beamed live from A Room for London / Roi des Belges to the Purcell Room, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, London. An Artangel production in association with Southbank Centre.
Orson Welles wrote a screenplay based on Joseph Conrad's 1903 novel Heart of Darkness in the late 1930s. It would have been his first film but it was
rejected by RKO pictures, and he went on to make Citizen Kane instead. At the time the script was considered too political, too expensive, and too uncompromising artistically. Narrative parallels were also drawn with the rise of fascism in Europe. Today other parallels are drawn.
Banner directs Emmy-award winning actor Brian Cox in the first ever performance of this Orson Welles' screenplay. Cox will perform live to camera on the Roi des Belges, a one-bedroom installation, perched on the roof of the Queen Elizabeth Hall, based on the riverboat that Joseph Conrad piloted up the River Congo, designed by David Kohn Architects in collaboration with Fiona Banner. The durational performance will be streamed live onto a screen in Southbank Centre's Purcell Room, and on the web at www.aroomforlondon.co.uk
Fiona Banner's presentation of Orson Welles' Heart of Darkness is part of Artangel's A Room for London programme where the boat becomes an extraordinary temporary studio for writers, musicians and artists throughout 2012.
Image: Roi des Belges, the Belgian riverboat Joseph Conrad purportedly commanded up the Congo River in 1889
For press enquiries about Artangel and the A Room for London artistic programme please contact Emily Bromfield: 020 7713 1400 or emily@artangel.org.uk
For press enquiries about A Room for London and Living Architecture, please contact Pauline Stobbs at Theresa Simon & Partners: 020 77344800 or pauline@theresasimon.com
Saturday 31 March 2012, 5.30pm. FREE
Estimated running time 3.5 hours. Visitors are welcome to come and go throughout the event.
The Purcell Room
Belvedere Road, Southbank SE1 8XX London