Don't Trust Anyone Over Thirty: The Storyboard
Dan Graham, Tony Oursler & Laurent P. Berger
Rodney Graham | Tony Oursler | Laurent P. Berger
Don’t trust Anyone Over Thirty: The Storyboard, 2004
22 individual framed drawings and photographs, 5 videos displayed on LCD screens and sound installation
Dimensions variable
Commissioned by Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary
Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection
Installation view: Rock my Religion, Junta Castilla y León | Caja Duero | Fundación Salamanca Ciudad de Cultura, Salamanca, Spain, 2008-2009
Photo: Courtesy of Fundación Salamanca Ciudad de Cultura
- Date
- 2005
- Medium
- Installation with 22 framed drawings, prints, and photographs, five videos on monitors (color, sound), purple carpet and chairs, sound by Bruce Odland
- Dimension
- From 21 x 46 cm to 41 x 77 cm (framed works on paper) Videos with varying durations (from 1 min 41 sec to 12 min) 27 min 47 sec (sound) Overall dimensions variable
- Credit
Commissioned and produced by TRANS>
Co-produced by TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Foundation
TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection- This artwork is part of the donation and long-term loan from TBA21 to the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza.
Details
Don’t Trust Anyone over Thirty: The Storyboard is an entire wall/room installation consisting of drawings, collages, photos and videos, unfolding the creative process and spirit of the rock opera. The Storyboard reveals the opera’s visual and audio elements in a collage-like synopsis and features documents of the concept, and references to the "hippie era." One of the works is the original cover of Neil Young’s first solo album from 1968, which was influential for the entire production, its spirit and the music. The collage like costume and puppet design studies evidence the ways in which the individual characters of the story developed.
Laurent P. Berger’s drawings reveal his congenial set design for Don’t Trust Anyone over Thirty with the sculptural elements of the stage, functioning simultaneously as a platform for a hybrid multi-media installation of puppetry, live band and projection area for the videos. Tony Oursler’s videos featuring the puppets also show footage not used in the performance, such as dress rehearsals, documenting the artist’s collaboration with master puppeteer Philip Huber. The videos are accompanied by the opera’s enthralling music, compiled by Bruce Odland, sound designer to Don’t Trust Anyone over Thirty, which finally conveys the spirit of the theater performance.