Out of the Body Travel
1976 · Video (black and white, sound)
43 min.
Museum of Modern Art
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Richard Foreman
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Inside Spaces
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1981
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Projects: Video XII
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1977
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Richard Foreman is an American theatre director and playwright known for a radical deconstruction of narrative and scenic space that emerged from postwar experimental performance. His work employs dense layering of sound, light, and movement to fragment conventional storytelling, prioritizing sensory overload and the materiality of theatrical production itself. Foreman founded the Ontological-Hysteric Theater in New York in 1968, establishing a laboratory for non-linear visual composition that challenges the coherence of character and plot.
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