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David Byrne: Art That Fills the Void at Teatro Metropolitan

From La Jornada · () Spanish

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  • David Byrne opened the first of three concerts at Mexico City’s Teatro Metropólitan with a minimalist stage design.
  • The performance relies on bodies, movement and sound rather than large structures, lighting systems or screens.
  • Its changing backdrop includes a Brooklyn fire escape and Oaxacan graphic art carrying the words “Fuck ICE.”

An empty space takes center stage in David Byrne’s performance at Mexico City’s Teatro Metropólitan. At a time when concert production increasingly leans toward the grandiose, Byrne chooses clean lines and theatrical minimalism.

There are no giant structures or machines designed to dazzle through an excess of lights, mechanisms or screens. Instead, there are bodies: bodies that make sound, move and occupy the stage.

The backdrop transforms that open space. At one moment it resembles a Brooklyn fire escape; at another, it becomes Oaxacan graphic art featuring a skull with “Fuck ICE” written across its forehead.

That was the setting for the first of the three nights Byrne is scheduled to perform at the Mexico City theater.

Fuck ICE

· Displayed artworkThe phrase appears on the forehead of a skull in the Oaxacan graphic art used as part of the performance backdrop.
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