Restagings No. 5: Maria Maria

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Restagings No. 5: Maria, Maria is a gradual unfolding of Walter de Maria’s 360° I Ching/ 64 Sculptures, presenting its monumental scale across time as well as space.

A pair of dancers lay down each of the 576 lines of De Maria’s work; The sculpture is seen evolving incrementally though never completely. Dancers descend with the rods as they place them, beginning as the work’s installers, ending as still, horizontal forms like the rods themselves. With a nod to de Maria’s early life as a musician, the performance turns his lacquered rods into instruments, which sound at different pitches as they are dragged into position.

With its cyclical task and disappearing lines, Maria, Maria creates a living experience of de Maria’s principles of Meaningless Work—no conventional purpose—and Invisible Drawing—minimal form and maximal contingency. It is a ceremony to prepare the ground for forms we don’t yet know.