{"product_id":"conversations-with-meredith-monk","title":"Conversations with Meredith Monk – Expanded Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eConversations with Meredith Monk – Expanded Edition\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePerforming Arts Journal Publications\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublished on December 20, 2020\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis expanded edition of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eConversations with Meredith Monk\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eoffers a fascinating portrait of the internationally renowned composer, performer, director, and filmmaker, from her early years to the present. The volume, first published in 2014, now includes an eight-page color insert and has been updated to feature discussions of Monk’s latest music-theatre work,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eCellular Songs\u003c\/em\u003e, and a work-in-progress,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eIndra’s Net\u003c\/em\u003e, in addition to the recent revival of ATLAS\u003cem\u003e: an opera in three parts\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eat the Los Angeles Philharmonic—a work that the New York Times called “her masterpiece and one of the defining operatic experiments of the 20th century”—and the showing of the remastered film of Monk’s great work\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eQuarry\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe five long conversations that comprise the volume, the latest in PAJ’s “Performance Ideas” series, generate invaluable insights into artistic process, the human voice, interrelationships of time, space, and music, and the complexity of artistic legacies. Monk dives into questions of performance such as:\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhat is a “contemporary” work?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eHow does an artwork retain its integrity of form over time?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn these deeply engaging conversations, Monk speaks in great detail on her creation of music-theatre works, operas, and films, reflecting on the large-cast theatrical works and the more recent poetically distilled, abstract pieces. In her preface to the new edition, “Performance as a Life Science,” Bonnie Marranca writes: “Now, against the background of life in extremis, it is evident that Monk had already acknowledged both the always unknown future and the resilience of human beings. For decades her body of work has been rooting itself in the recurrent themes of spiritual quest (\u003cem\u003eSongs of Ascension\u003c\/em\u003e), healing (\u003cem\u003eThe Politics of Quiet\u003c\/em\u003e), compassion (\u003cem\u003emercy\u003c\/em\u003e), plague (\u003cem\u003eBook of Days\u003c\/em\u003e), fragility of life (impermanence), cultural identity (\u003cem\u003eEllis Island\u003c\/em\u003e), historical trauma (\u003cem\u003eQuarry\u003c\/em\u003e), ecology (\u003cem\u003eOn Behalf of Nature\u003c\/em\u003e), and community (\u003cem\u003eCellular Songs\u003c\/em\u003e).”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e–\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Meredith Monk\/The House Foundation for the Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49550003241237,"sku":null,"price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0866\/0048\/3093\/files\/Conversations.png?v=1763614296","url":"https:\/\/meredithmonk.myshopify.com\/products\/conversations-with-meredith-monk","provider":"Meredith Monk\/The House Foundation for the Arts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}