When a Dada pioneer enters the era of the meme
In short: Experience a choreographed dialogue between conceptual art and music that explores our modern obsession with replicas. This performance reimagines the boundary between original objects and their digital shadows.
The Glass Age, a performance at The Met on January 15, 2026, features artist Alex Da Corte as Marcel Duchamp and composer Emily Wells as Eric Satie. The work functions as a poem set to hundreds of images, exploring a 'prism world' of copies, proxies, and memes.
By blending these figures, the performance examines how image, object, and time coalesce in a landscape of duplicates. It draws inspiration from the aesthetic of Man Ray's rayographs to question the nature of authenticity in a world defined by reproduction.
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