Freda Guttman
Cassandra: An Opera In Four Acts
March 21–April 19, 1997

“I hear you. We hope that a voice resonates. That if it resonate it forms another space, and will send back beautiful, disruptive signals along the wires of omission. Sound us out. Hit me with a stick and my tubes will rattle. Sing directly into my mouth and you may engage my voice. A voice links a text to a body. Through it, speech is attributed to a person, and a person attribute to speech.  Cassandra: an Opera in Four Acts offers a space in which we hear and hence imagine subjects who exist within and yet think outside of regimes of knowledge and silence. In a flickering black and white image, gestures of kinship are replayed and replayed with the unhurried care of one not involved but fully, compassionately, attentive”.