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PANEL: Venues, Institutions, Publics

Fabien Barontini, Tamas Dobozy, John Maclean

Published: 2009-09-09

VIDEO: Three talks are given by a panel of presenters on topics surrounding the relationship between improvisation and public institutions and venues. Tamas Dobozy: "Cecil Taylor Comes to Alice Tully Hall." John Maclean: "The Open Council: What is the Potential of a Self-institution to Provide Alternative Institutional Framing Devices to Contextualize Critical Art Practice?" Fabien Barontini: "Improvised Music and the French Cultural Establishment." TEXT: Abstracts and biographies for the panelists.

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Improvisation is, simply put, being and living this very moment. No one can hide in music, and improvising in music is to be truly in this very moment and being completely yourself, with all your qualities and faults. It is probably the most honest state for a human being to be in.

– John McLaughlin in an interview with Daniel Fischlin.