'Resolution - the tidy ending - is the tradition in magic.... Someone disappears, he reappears. The ambiguity in contemporary film and literature has been missing from magic. It's time for magic's postmodern moment.'
David Copperfield, 2000

Though I wouldn't call his work  'post-modern' (far too indebted to West End musicals, to Disney, to clear victorious narratives and resolutions), Copperfield's comment hits home with me. It's time for magic's postmodern moment. Other than Penn and Teller, where are those postmodern magicians?

And of course: there's nothing wrong with appearance and disappearance. Case in point: Copperfield's 'After hours' remains one of my favourite magic videos. A person appears...some dancing... the person disappears.

See here:
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/467845/david_copperfield_after_hours/

Yours
VG


"David Copperfield Magician Television Special 1977" by ABC Television

Dearest folk,
if you're going to Edinburgh for the great bonanza that is THE festival (not true, there are several festivals all nested into one another), then please allow me to surreptitiously force this choice on you:

Vincent Gambini's This is not a magic show
At Forest Fringe, Mon 17th - Fri 21st, at 12pm.
To book your FREE ticket, go to:
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/1996167

This is still at a work in progress stage, but all that means is that the piece is alive with the tension of me still figuring it out, as opposed to it being a repeatable self-same drudgery of a finished show (not true, finished shows don't have to be dead things, it's just convention that makes them so).

Yes, so, come.
Forest Fringe have put together a superb line-up, including Forced Entertainment, and Vincent Gambini.
All details here: http://forestfringe.co.uk/edinburgh2015/artists/

ta-dha!
Vincent