Surrealist Saturday
27 May 2006
Joan Miró and Joan Baixas
Merma Never Dies
A re-working of Joan Miró and Joan Baixas’s Mori el Merma
(1978)
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Joan Miró and Joan Baixas: Merma Never Dies
14:11 mins
The puppets in this performance were originally designed for the theatre piece Mori el Merma, first performed in 1978. The production was a collaboration between the artist Joan Miró and La Claca, an experimental theatre troupe from Barcelona, headed by Joan Baixas. In this new production, Merma Never Dies, Joan Baixas evokes the critical spirit of Mori el Merma and recovers Miró's original desire to make the piece into a street parade in the Catalonian tradition.
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