41è Festival Internacional de Música de Cadaqués
CONCERT HOMAGE TO JOHN CAGE ON HIS HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY
Wednesday 8th of August 2012, 22:30 h.Place: Church of Santa Maria de Cadaqués
EMANUEL PIMENTA (São Paulo, 1957)
This is the first concert in Catalonia by Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta, renowned musician and composer, as well as architect, photographer, writer and intermedia artist. In Cadaqués he will present various multimedia works, accompanied by live performances in the context of a Fluxus concert: Beethoven’s Cage (music and film), M (music) and Ocean 2 (music and film). He performed this same program last March at the EIF, Experimental Intermedia Foundation in New York. Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta was a collaborator of John Cage (1912-1992), one of the greatest avant-garde composers of the 20th century, composing works for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. In the last years of his life, John Cage spent some summers in Cadaqués, together with his partner Merce Cunningham, attracted by the presence of Marcel Duchamp, Richard Hamilton and a pleiad of international artists. 
Photography exhibition 
IMAGES OF SILENCE Wednesday 8th August, 19 h. Opening at the space “Art i joia”From the 8th of August to the 2nd of September With the collaboration of Institut de Cultura de Barcelona (ICUB). La Virreina. Centre de la Imatge.
Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta presents an exhibition of his pictures of John Cage’s loft in New York, taken at the end of the 1980s, as well as 13 of his music scores, created in virtual reality, and 13 thoughts by John Cage. This is an exceptional photographic testimony of the atmosphere around Cage in New York, which shows his sensitivity and liking for silence in things, capturing still images of isolated objects and details from his apartment. Some of these images have illustrated the book of the letters between Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta and John Cage, with the title John Cage. The silence of the music, 100 years, with a prologue by Lucrezia De Domizio Durini.
LectureWednesday 8th of August, 19.30 h. Auditorium of the theatre “Art i joia”
OLTRE LA MUSICA (Lecture in Italian)By Lucrezia De Domizio Durini (1936), has been, for over fifty years, a unique figure in the contemporary art and cultural world as a cultural worker, journalist, writer, curator, publisher , patron and donor. She is the major collaborator of Joseph Beuys, researcher and cultural promoter in Italy and the word. Her meeting with Beuys in 1971 gave an impulse to his later work. She created the first discussion with Beuys, Incontro con Beuys (1974), followed by projects such as La Fondazione della Rinascita dell’Agricoltura and Operation Difesa della Natura (1984). She is the author of many publications and has cured major exhibitions in prestigious museum araud the word for Joseph Beuys and also in the context of the American Pop Art, international Constructivism, Conceptual and Arte Povera artists. She is the promoter of the magazine RISK. Arte Oggi and founded the Associazione Culturale Onlus II Clavicémbalo. In 1993 she was decorated Knight of the Order of Arts and Literature by Jack Lang in Paris and “Cavaliere dell’Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana” by President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi in 2001.She has worked with many international architects and musicians, Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta, among them. She spreads the thought of Joseph Beuys into the world.
Biography
Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta (São Paulo, 1957). Musician, composer, architect, photographer, writer and intermedia artist. He is one of the most representative artists of the media, recognized by UNESCO in 1993. His work is present in the collections of museums such as the Whitney Museum in New York or the Cyber Art Museum of Seattle. He worked with John Cage as a guest composer for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, from 1985 until Cage’s death, and continued working for Cunningham for over 20 years after. His pieces have been performed by artists such as John Cage, David Tudor, Takehisa Kosugi or Christian Wolf, and his texts have been published in various countries. He has developed a method based in neuroscience and in the Theory of Thought, characteristic of his works, which he has called “logical traps”. He has also been an active member of the New York Academy of Sciences since 1990. In 2003 he established himself in Switzerland, where he had been working since the 1980s in the Video Art Festival, with René Berger. He is also often in Lisbon and New York.