{"id":8458,"title":"Unrehearsed Beauty","dimensions":"13.5 x 18.3 cm, 92 p, language: English (also translated into French: Le Génie des Autres), ISBN: 1552450376 (ISBN13: 9781552450376)","date_begin":"1998-01-01","material":"ink, paper","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":26,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":5,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp","cached_tag_list":"artist novel","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"B 2025/988","stream_count_app":16,"permalink":"unrehearsed-beauty","description_ca":null,"short_description_ca":null,"description_it":null,"short_description_it":null,"cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":null,"hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":true,"category":{"en":"Book","nl":"Boek","fr":"Livre"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/019/103/large/Unrehearsed_Cover.jpg?1380748135","poster_credits":null,"translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiterary synopsis\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA series of theatrical proposals \u0026ndash; to be repeated, discarded, performed simultaneously and/or recombined in any and all of the many possible combinations \u0026ndash; all vaguely relating to the topic of the author\u0026rsquo;s considerable moral ambivalence. About the things we think and do that we know, on so many levels, are more than a bit fucked up, but that somehow we must do anyway. Things that make life \u0026lsquo;ugly\u0026rsquo; and \u0026lsquo;worth living\u0026rsquo; all at the same time. Pathetic, sharp, harmless and vicious: these are the contradictions that pushed and pulled these paragraphs into existence, paragraphs that can be read in any order you choose.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRelation of the novel to the artist\u0026rsquo;s practice\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eUnrehearsed Beauty\u003c/em\u003e is a text originally commissioned by the TextConText conference in September, 1997, a conference organized by the BIT Teatergarasjen in Bergen, Norway. The conference proposed to examine innovative and unexpected ways of using written text in contemporary works of theatre and/or performance. In Bergen, sections of the \u003cem\u003eUnrehearsed Beauty\u003c/em\u003e were performed in Norwegian translation by three Norwegian actors, directed by the Quebec director Carole Nadeau. A few years later, in 2002, Wren\u0026rsquo;s performance group PME-ART used sections of the text as the basis for their performance Unrehearsed Beauty/Le G\u0026eacute;nie des Autres.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://archives.chbooks.com/online_books/unrehearsed_beauty/1.html\"\u003eNovel\u0026#39;s website\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[{"id":2101,"name":"Jacob  Wren","category":{"en":"Creator","nl":"Vervaardiger","fr":"Créateur"}}]}