“THE AMAZING MISS ROSIE COOPER CHANDELIER SPECTACULAR”

At the Hackney Empire

Main Theatre

23^rd July 2007, 3pm

“LADIES AND GENTLEMEN! Good Evening! And welcome – welcome! To one of the most extraordinary spectacles your eyes will ever see! One of the most amazing, incredible performances – the most undoubtedly incredible of theatrical spectaculars – currently showing IN THE WORLD! Ladies and Gentlemen, PREPARE yourselves – if indeed you can - for the show that will drive you WILD with excitement (yes! We will amaze you beyond all reason)… and please, please hold on to your hats whilst we escort you into the incredible, amazing, wonderful, phenomenal, fabulously incredible world of… THE AMAZING MISS ROSIE COOPER CHANDELIER SPECTACULAR!”

21 Jul 2007

A Party to Honour the Absence of the Amazing Miss Rosie Cooper

Magazin 4, Bregenz

A Party to Honour the Absence of the Amazing Miss Rosie Cooper was originally a commissioned response to John Cage's 1952 "silent" musical compsition 4'33". It was first presented on Saturday 21 July 2007 at Magazin 4, Bregenz, Austria, as pat of 4'33" (3 movements, no notes) an exhibition curated by Peter Lewis and Wolfgang Fetz that also featured contributions from Fabienne Audeoud, Celine Condorelli, Cecilia Wee and Martin Creed.

Since then, it has been re-presented in various different locations - in 2008 as part of Per adesso noi siamo qua (for now we are here) at Villa Romana, Florence, in 2009; in 2008 at The Old Ship in London; and at Mill24, Manchester, in 2010.

Each presentation requires a specific set-up that includes the banner; cake; sparklers and bunting, coloured lights or glitter curtains.

On each occasion the audience are invited to send a tourist-style postcard to me at home.