Experimental performance / instrumental theatre: Roundel of Cremona (1968)
Experimental performance / instrumental theatre: Roundel of Cremona (1968)

Summary/Abstract: This article examines the performance Roundel of Cremona by four young Estonian musicians at the Writer’s House in Tallinn in 1968. Through the categories of experimentality and performativity, I analyse the adaptation process of the strategies of Western neo-avant-garde art in the Soviet cultural context. Against the background of early performance art in Estonia, this event is one of the most interesting and complex examples of the interweaving of the performative turn in the (Western) culture of the 1960s with the official Soviet ideology of scientific revolution and innovation in all areas of society.

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