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Eve Sussman [Artist] “I Would Love If You Went to a Piece of Video Art and Got Emotionally Involved the Way You Do at the Movies.” BLVR21.1.QXD 1/18/06 12:24 PM Page 71 EVE SUSSMAN [ARTIST] “I WOULD LOVE IF YOU WENT TO A PIECE OF VIDEO ART AND GOT EMOTIONALLY INVOLVED THE WAY YOU DO AT THE MOVIES.” Useful instruments for scoring an opera: Bouzoukis Meat Cleavers Thunderous Conversation Bell-Clad Warriors ve Sussman, the woman behind this year’s The Rufus Corporation, a band of itinerant actors, artists, Whitney Biennial darling, 89 Seconds at dancers, musicians now totaling twenty-two—having added Alcazar, has just returned home from twelve performers, two horses, an opera singer and a cowboy to Athens, Greece, where she and two collab- their ranks—ascend two hours to Episkopi… in the mountains orators (Claudia de Serpa Soares and Jeff of Hydra, to the estate of the late cigarette mogul, Papastratos, EWood) auditioned two hundred people in a four-day casting who graciously abandoned his summer home in the late sixties frenzy.Sussman’s most recent project (working title: Raptus) leaving a perfect time capsule and testament to the glory days is inspired by Jacques-Louis David’s painting, the Interven- of the Athenian entrepreneurial class… as if anticipating the tion of the Sabine Women, much as her acclaimed 89 arrival of a group of wandering bards in the early part of the Seconds video paid tribute to painter Diego Velazquez’s Las twenty-first Century. Meninas. After folding the newest Greek cast members into —From “What Is the Rufus Corporation and Who Are their expanding, intergenerational, transnational pack of per- the Sabine Women?” formers and artists, Sussman and her co-conspirators moved through Greece for three weeks under the evolving entity of We met in her home/studio, a large, open space overlook- the Rufus Corporation. In her own manifesto/press release, ing the Wallabout Channel in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where she states: we discussed her work-in-progress.While talking to her about 71 Illustration by Charles Burns BLVR21.1.QXD 1/18/06 12:24 PM Page 72 her developing opera-cum-musical, I flashed between images our other Greek actors, I think people understood why from various black-and-white Greek musicals I watched day I felt it was important to work there. For me, it had to after day while visiting Athens in the mid-nineties. Sussman do with some hokey idea of collective unconscious and hadn’t seen any Greek movies from this era, but was assidu- the idea that there is this layered history that people ously culling ideas from other cinematic influences, along with carry with them. In Greece, that collective unconscious, architectural, musical, operatic, sculptural, and (once again) that shared history,is really prominent.There is an over- painterly sources. —Suzanne Snider all consciousness of ancient history and the sense that you live in a shot of these ancient sites, and you use I. “PEOPLE HAVE WHAT THEY SAY them. We’re now trying to get permission to use the IS A NORMAL CONVERSATION Herodion Theater at the Acropolis to do the fight scene BUT TO ANYONE WHO DOESN’T in that amphitheater. And the idea that that’s been used SPEAK GREEK, IT SEEMS LIKE for 2,000 years is kind of phenomenal. THEY’RE HAVING A FIGHT.” I had lived in Rome and in Istanbul, and Athens puts you right in the middle. It somehow felt important to THE BELIEVER: Is it a tragedy? me to be right in the middle between these two cultures that I was familiar with. I put myself in a place where EVE SUSSMAN:Yeah,probably it is.The new piece is I was unfamiliar to the point where I couldn’t even read based on the myth of the Sabine women. These the alphabet. Instead of going to a place where I knew women are stolen from these men and the men go people and had connections and spoke the language, back to create a war to win back their women. And I went to a place where I knew no one and understood instead of going back to their homeland, these women nothing, but I had a feeling about this idea of shared his- just separate the two groups of men, and in some ways tory and collective unconscious and I had a feeling that act’s pretty confounding. In the group dynamic about the landscape. that we had [in Athens], the men did form into packs, The landscape in Italy was much too bucolic— and the women were sort of filtering between and that much too soft, much too sweet. And I thought the just happened socially.You watch it as a strange psy- lifestyle in Italy also was not quite rugged enough. I felt chological and sociological study of what happens I needed a more raw environment. In parts of Greece when you put people in a room. And that’s the thing that’s still true. In parts of Athens, it’s really intense; peo- I was most interested in with 89 Seconds. What would ple talk about it as a polluted, aggressive, and loud city. have been going on in this room? I feel like I could It’s actually less aggressive than I could have imagined, make films about that forever—what’s the psychologi- but it is an aggressive place—I mean, it rivals New York cal condition when you walk into a room full of peo- in terms of being noisy. People have what they call a ple, and how do you capture that? What are the ten- normal conversation, but to anyone who doesn’t speak sions in the room? What are the love affairs in the Greek it seems like they’re having a fight. So it is really room? What was the backstory before you walked in? a different culture and it’s not a very European culture. Where is the energy going? Greek friends of mine say,“we were raised being told we were Balkan, not European.” And it feels much more BLVR: How did you decide where to set it? Oriental and Turkish than European. That was impor- tant to me for this piece, too.That we get away from the ES:The myth of the Sabine women is actually a Roman domesticity and conformity of a lot of European cul- myth, but you could set it anywhere. I felt strongly that ture. In Greece, nobody quite conforms—there aren’t I wanted to do it in Greece—at first it was intuition. really any rules on how to do anything. People asked, “Why Greece?” I had more obvious rea- sons, but when I finally took my company and we cast BLVR: And they break plates! I love a country that 72 BLVR21.1.QXD 1/18/06 12:24 PM Page 73 “The Queen Exits” (Helen Pickett as Mariana of Austria, Queen of Spain).Video still from 89 Seconds at Alcázar by The Rufus Corporation. Photo: Eve Sussman & The Rufus Corporation. breaks plates to show joy. Jonathan leading the groups and having them do differ- ent sound improvs based on the sounds they were hear- ES: I didn’t see anyone breaking plates but I can imag- ing. We threw in some traditional Greek instruments ine. Maybe we’ll have to use that. like bouzouki and some percussive instruments. BLVR:You called your new piece-in-progress an opera. BLVR: How did that work out? How are you defining that term? ES: It was cool.We played around a lot with bells, too. ES: I want it to be driven by voice and music in the At one point, we were doing a bunch of fight choreog- broadest way possible. We’ve experimented with a raphy where everyone had bells attached to them.That bunch of different choral ideas. Jonathan Bepler was was based on Jonathan’s interest in the way you always talking about having a baby chorus, a man’s chorus, and hear bells in the landscape in Greece, once you get out a woman’s chorus.And an animal chorus. of the city and are into the countryside. We attached We’re talking about setting part of the new piece in bells to all the actors. the marketplace. In Athens, we went into the meat mar- ket—which is huge, with this cacophony of sound—it’s II. “AS IF SOMEBODY HAD WALKED really medieval.You have goat heads and pig’s feet and OUT OF THE HOUSE IN 1965 slabs of lamb and beef and guys with knives this big [ges- FOR A CUP OF COFFEE tures impressively] and they’re all screaming.We just went AND NEVER CAME BACK.” in there and started doing musical improv with them. We were walking through the market in groups with ES: Last time, we tried to quote a painting and tried to 73 BLVR21.1.QXD 1/18/06 12:24 PM Page 74 “The King Sleeps” ( Jeff Wood as Philip IV,King of Spain). Production still from 89 Seconds at Alcázar by The Rufus Corporation. Photo: Benedikt Partenheimer for Eve Sussman & The Rufus Corporation. quote it as carefully as possible.This time, we looked at all, and instead looking at filmmakers like Antonioni and a painting [David’s The Intervention of the Sabine Women] Godard. Start in 35mm black-and-white and let that and thought, “Well, that’s a cool myth.” The initial morph so that by the end of the piece you’re in this impetus for the piece was: I saw the painting, I emailed really loud, garish, HD-color riot scene.
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