Robert Rauschenberg
4 statements across 1 episodes · 0 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Oct 20, 2017 by Michelle Kuo · said 19 times in 2 episodes since 2017 · across every show →
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Oct 20, 2017
Oct 20, 2017 neutral
Kuo: Rauschenberg used classified military infrared cameras in a 1966 performance
“For example, in Rauschenberg's performance piece, to make a long story short, one of the technologies they got and used was infrared, and at the time, infrared was a classified military technology. They ended up getting infrared cameras from a Japanese supplie…”
Oct 20, 2017 neutral
Kuo: Rauschenberg's light trigger failed on opening night, requiring manual shutoff
“Of course, the first night, the rackets didn't work, so they were, or the lights, the trigger for the lights didn't work, so they were actually manually turning off the lights. You know, sort of jerry-rigging or, you know, retroactively, you know, making the p…”
Oct 20, 2017 neutral
Kuo: Rauschenberg's 1966 performance featured wired tennis rackets that extinguished lights
“Rauschenberg's piece basically set up, in this huge cavernous expanse of the armory, a tennis match. But it wasn't a regular tennis match. He set up a tennis court. He had the artist Frank Stella, who at the time was actually taking tennis lessons from a tenni…”