Shakespeare Adaptations
Gammatrace x Laurence Fuller (Directed by Vincent D'Onofrio)
“My work with Gamma has been a contemplation on the craft of acting in Contemporary Digital Art, and new depths that working in this way helped me to discover about this classic. The substance of performance is changing, the mediums of the human soul, though some things are always constant. Gamma and I find ourselves at this forefront rediscovering Shakespeare’s classic in an entirely new way. Traditions are uprooted by technology and yet resurrected.
Where one face exists, another is shown ~ Richard III gave us a glimpse at the madness that power can bring, to even undo his own family and peers at the expense of climbing the next rudder on the ladder. To take his credit at the throne on the backs of the fallen. And we with each succeeding generation find ourselves standing on those same backs, yet returning to them once again to claim their robes ~ either in triumph or in humility.”
The 67th 'Festival dei Due Mondi' -
Exhibit Dates: June 28 - July 14
Location: Palazzo Collicola,
Produced by @valuartdotcom
The releases for the below collection of Shakespeare Adaptations are determined by the Council Of Rust
Adapted from William Shakespeare’s Macbeth by Laurence Fuller
"Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools,
The way to dusty death.
Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more.
It is a taleTold by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.” ~ William Shakespeare adaptation,
Part of the Rust series by Laurence Fuller, 2024 @laurencefuller
Adapted from William Shakespeare’s ‘Othello’ by Laurence Fuller
"Virtue! a fig! 'tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners: so that if we will plant nettles, or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up thyme, supply it with one gender of herbs, or distract it with many, either to have it sterile with idleness, or manured with industry, why, the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills. If the balance of our lives had not one scale of reason to poise another of sensuality, the blood and baseness of our natures would conduct us to most preposterous conclusions: but we have reason to cool our raging motions, our carnal stings, our unbitted lusts, whereof I take this that you call love to be a sect or scion." ~ William Shakespeare Shakespearean adaptation, as part of the Rust series by Laurence Fuller, 2024 @laurencefuller
Adapted from William Shakespeare’s ‘Othello’ by Laurence Fuller
"And what’s he then that says I play the villain? When this advice is free I give and honest, All seals and symbols of redeemed sin, His soul is so enfetter’d to her love, That she may make, unmake, do what she list, Even as her appetite shall play the god With his weak function. How am I then a villain? When devils will the blackest sins put on, They do suggest at first with heavenly shows, As I do now: Divinity of Hell! I’ll pour this pestilence into his ear, That she repeals him for her body’s lust; And by how much she strives to do him good, She shall undo her credit with the Moor. So will I turn her virtue into pitch, And out of her own goodness make the net That shall enmesh them all." ~ William Shakespeare Shakespearean adaptation, as part of the Rust series by Laurence Fuller, 2024 @laurencefuller
Adapted from William Shakespeare’s ‘The Tempest’ by Laurence Fuller and Von Doyl
"I must eat my dinner. This island's mine, by Sycorax my mother, Which thou takest from me. When thou camest first, Thou strokedst me and madest much of me, wouldst give me Water with berries in't, and teach me how To name the bigger light.”
Performance by Laurence Fuller ~ @LaurenceFuller
Visuals and Sound by Von Doyle ~ @VonDoyl
Adapted from William Shakespeare’s ‘The Tempest’ by Laurence Fuller & Mathijs Vissers & David Cheifetz
The sweetest dreams can be born of monster. Animated from the oil painting by David Cheifetz @davidcheifetz ~ Digital painting contributions by Mathis @Mathooss ~ Poetry from Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” ~ Mixed media, produced and performed by Laurence Fuller @laurencefuller
Adapted from "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare
Visuals & sound by Mwan
Performance by Laurence Fuller