Best Regards from Charles Filch
2011
Performance
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Collection: Courtesy the artist .
The work is a spin-off of an important, site-specific and time-specific performance: The Beggar’s Opera, created by Dora García for Skulptur Projekte Münster 07. For The Beggar’s Opera in 2007 García worked with three actors who took turns playing Charles Filch, a character of Bertolt Brecht’s The Threepenny Opera. The actors did not exactly ‘play’ Charles Filch, but rather ‘became’ Charles Filch as long as they were in public space, wandering the streets of Münster interacting with citizens and tourists. In Best Regards from Charles Filch, Charles comes back from Brecht’s opera and from Skulptur Projekte Münster performance to meet his audience once more and tell them about his life away from the limelight, what new adventures have befallen him — because Charles Filch’s life continues in the realm of fiction, parallel to the lives of the public in real life.
First presented at The Inadequate, Dora García’s project for the Spanish pavilion in 54th Venice Biennale (2011)
