Study of Robert Wilson’s Creative Process
PEDRO VALIENTE
Study of Robert Wilson’s Creative Process (2000) is a PhD dissertation at Universidad Complutense de Madrid. It expands to the book series Robert Wilson. Planetary Performing Arts, published by Ñaque Ed., and upcoming Suspended Time Space. Robert Wilson’s Creative Process.
Study of Robert Wilson’s Creative Process (Estudio del proceso de creación en la obra de Robert Wilson)
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PhD DISSERTATION Study of Robert Wilson’s Creative Process. (Estudio del proceso de creación en la obra de Robert Wilson) is a dissertation on director/visual artist Robert Wilson's work (Part 1), and creative process (Part 2). Title: Estudio del proceso de creación en la obra de Robert Wilson. Language: Spanish. Author: Pedro Valiente. Director: José Ramón Pérez Ornia. Program: Audiovisual Creativity and Production. Department: Audiovisual Communication and Publicity. School: Faculty of Information Sciences. University: Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Date: December 2000, presentation before a Jury formed by PhD professors from four universities of Spain. Highest mark: unanimous cum laude [sobresaliente cum laude por unanimidad]. Published in 2003 on Eprints by Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Available on academic platforms. BOOKS based on PhD dissertation: Robert Wilson. Planetary Performing Arts (RW. Arte escénico planetario) published; Suspended Time Space. Robert Wilson’s Creative Process (Tiempo espacio suspendido. Proceso de creación de Robert Wilson) upcoming.
Robert Wilson
Photo: Hamletmachine and Relative Calm by Lucinda Childs: Lucie Jansch I © RW Work Ltd.
E-PRINT Estudio del proceso de creación en la obra de Robert Wilson, Universidad Complutense de Madrid I Photo: Happy Days: Luciano Romano I © RW Work Ltd.
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[SPANISH] ABSTRACT “Estudio del proceso de creación en la obra de Robert Wilson presenta una investigación acerca de uno de los creadores multidisciplinares más influyentes en las artes escénicas del final del siglo veinte. La primera parte, ‘Robert Wilson y la vanguardia escénica en el contexto del arte contemporáneo’ es un estudio comparativo entre Wilson y otros creadores y movimientos artísticos a los que hemos vinculado su obra. También aparece un desglose de los rasgos fundamentales de su trabajo teatral, audiovisual y plástico, y un ensayo final enmarcando su obra en determinadas formas de arte ritual. En la segunda parte, ‘Evolución estética de Robert Wilson a través de Death Destruction Detroit: 1979, 1987, 1999’, gira en torno al núcleo del estilo wilsoniano: el proceso de creación, tomando como referente las versiones diferentes de un montaje que abarcan las tres décadas en las que Wilson ha desarrollado su producción. Asimismo se incluyen textos en torno a Wilson y sus principales colaboradores, una referencia a la vanguardia escénica española, y el catálogo de su obra”. —Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Iconic Works
ROBERT WILSON Official Site Iconic Works I Past Productions
KA MOUNTAIN AND GUARDenia TERRACE: a story about a family and some people changing I Deafman Glance I A Letter for Queen Victoria I Baby Blood I ByrdwoMAN I Poles I Duricglte & Tomorrow I The King of Spain I The Life and Times of Joseph Stalin I The Life and Times of Sigmund Freud I Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights I ROBERT WILSON Official Site Iconic Works I © RW Work Ltd.
ICONIC WORKS
HAMLET a monologue and Shakespeare's Sonnets by William Shakespeare I Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov I Woyceck by Georg Büchner I Faustus by Thomas MannI I Lulu by Frank Wedekind I The Threepenny Opera by Kurt Weill I The Lady from the Sea by Henrik Ibsen I Rhinoceros by Eugène Ionesco I Endgame and Happy Days by Samuel Beckett I Hamletmachine and The Forest (with Darryl Pinckney) by Heiner Müller I Alice (Alice in Wonderland) by Lewis Carroll I POEtry by Edgar Allen Poe I The Black Rider: The Casting of the Magic Bullets by William S. Burroughs I THE DAYS BEFORE: death destruction and detroit III by Umberto Eco I RW Official Site Past Productions I © RW Work Ltd.
ICONIC AUTHORS
Visual Art
ROBERT WILSON Official Site: Visual Art: Exhibitions I Video Portraits I Works on Paper I Forniture & Design I Environment & Installations I Glass
Photo: Works on Paper I Video Portraits I The Watermill Center: Frances Levine Studio I Rhinoceros by Eugène Ionesco: Julian Mommert I Endgame by Samuel Beckett: Lovis Ostenrik I © RW Work Ltd.
DDDIII Drafts by Robert Wilson
Originals for The Days Before DDDIII I The Watermill Center
Articles on Robert Wilson
Articles by Pedro Valiente for El Público Magazine on Robert Wilson, Laurie Anderson, Heiner Müller, et al.
On the Net
BOOK REVIEW by writer Irma Correa for Acotaciones Magazine Real Escuela Superior de Arte Dramático (RESAD) BOOK MENTIONS Academia de las Artes Escénicas de España, Magazine I Teatro Español Theater Pogram I Fundación SGAE Writers Lab I LinkedIn PUBLISHER Ñaque Ed. I Book BOOK STORES MADRID: Casa del Libro I Barcelona: Alibri I Bukz I FNAC I El Corte Inglés I Loring Art I Yorick I Artez I Artezblai I Librería Proteo I Amazon INSTITUTIONS Biblioteca Nacional de España I INAEM Ministerio de Cultura de España I La Central Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía I BARCELONA: LAIE Centro de Cultura Contemporánea de Barcelona (CCCB) I Institut del Teatre UNIVERSITY Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona I Universidad Politécnica de Madrid I Universidad Miguel Hernández I Biblioteca Miguel de Cervantes
BOOKS
UNIVERSITY Universidad Complutense de Madrid PDF I CD I (2024) Eprint 2000+ downloads from 50+ countries I Universidad de la Rioja PDF I Europeana Eprint I Scribd PDF ACADEMIC MENTIONS (2024) Academia registers 900+ book mentions I Book 01 and PhD dissertation mentioned internationally in books, PhD dissertations, MA thesis, and university programs
PhD DISSERTATION
All is Connected
Photo: The Days Before DDDIII: PV I © RW Work Ltd.
ABSTRACT Creative process by Robert Wilson through three versions of Death Destruction and Detroit through three decades: DDDI (1979) with technical study, DDDII (1987) with comments by collaborators, and THE DAYS BEFORE: death destruction and detroit III (1999) with journals of workshops at The Watermill Center in New York I Style and essentials: from Wagner's total theater to space in non-conventional performing arts I Commented chronology, documentation I Articles on artists Heiner Müller, Laurie Anderson, et al I Book 02 Tiempo espacio suspendido. Proceso de creación de Robert Wilson
Suspended Time Space. Robert Wilson’s Creative Process
Upcoming
Photo: Deafman Glance: Peter Moore I © RW Work Ltd.
ABSTRACT Avant-garde: Symbolism, Expressionism, Dadaism, Surrealism, Theater of the Absurd. I Visionaries: Alfred Jarry, Adolph Appia, Edward Gordon Craig, Oscar Schlemmer, Vsevolod Meyerhold, Erwin Piscator. Authors: Samuel Beckett, Tadeusz Kantor. Masters: Martha Graham, Merce Cunningham. I Aesthetic: Experimentation, postmodernity, multimedia, interdisciplinary, multicultural, ecological, oriental. I Artistic disciplines: performing arts, visual arts, film/media. I Creative process: scenic techniques, voice/sound, text/composition, performance/movement, light/costume, space/time, mise-en-escene, total theater. I Book 01 Robert Wilson. Arte escénico planetario
Robert Wilson. Planetary Performing Arts
Ñaque Ed.
Photo: Shakespeare’s Sonnets: Lesley Leslie-Spinks I © RW Work Ltd.
SUBJECT: Robert Wilson’s work (Part 1), creative process (Part 2). TITLE: Study of Robert Wilson’s Creative Process. LANGUAGE: Spanish. AUTHOR: Pedro Valiente. DIRECTOR: José Ramón Pérez Ornia. PROGRAM: Audiovisual Creativity and Production. UNIVERSITY: Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM). READING: PhD professors Jury from four universities in Spain. Mark: unanimous cum laude [sobresaliente cum laude por unanimidad]. E-PRINT UCM: 2000+ downloads from 50+ countries (2024). PhD dissertation Estudio del proceso de creación en la obra de Robert Wilson
Study of Robert Wilson’s Creative Process
PhD dissertation
Photo: The Days Before DDDIII: PV I © RW Work Ltd.
The Days Before DDDIII by Robert Wilson uses fragments from The Island of the Day Before by Umberto Eco, Tone Poems by Christopher Knowles as well as biblical and found texts. Recited by readers including Fiona Shaw and Isabella Rossellini as a series of visual landscapes, it’s inspired by Kabuki theater and contemporary dance. Light supervised by A.J. Weissbard and visuals by video designer Christopher Kondek and video design collaborator Pedro Valiente. Developed over three years at The Watermill Center, and also Piccolo Teatro di Milano and Teatro Comunale di Modena, Italy. Theater Original title: THE DAYS BEFORE: death destrucion and detroit III
The Days Before DDDIII
Robert Wilson
“The world of a deaf child opened up to us like a wordless mouth. For more than four hours, we went to inhabit this universe where, in the absence of words, of sounds, sixty people had no words except to move… I never saw anything more beautiful in the world since I was born.”
Photo: Anja Silja and Robert Wilson performing ’Murder Scene’ from Deafman Glance as a Prologue to Expectation, Berlin 2004: Monika Rittershaus I © RW Work Ltd
Creative Process
BOOKS
Suspended Time Space. Robert Wilson's Creative Process completed
Robert Wilson. Planetary Performing Arts published
PhD
Study of Robert Wilson’s Creative Process published
THEATER
The Days Before DDDIII by Robert Wilson
ROBERT WILSON
Robert Wilson I The Watermill Center
— Photo: The Days Before DDDIII poster by Pedro Valiente as academic draft for PhD dissertation. No commercial use. I RW Name: © RW Ltd.
