Amsterdam: Artist Paul McCarthy’s C.S.S.C. Coach Stage Stage Coach VR experiment Mary and Eve (2017) in VR series Xtended at Eye Filmmuseum – From 25 July through 11 August
On 25 July 2019, Paul McCarthy’s expansive virtual reality work C.S.S.C. Coach Stage Stage Coach VR experiment Mary and Eve will be presented at Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam, marking its premiere in the Netherlands. First exhibited by the Faurschou Foundation during the Venice Biennale in 2017, this work revisits McCarthy’s ongoing project, ‘CSSC Coach Stage Stage Coach.’ Encompassing a wide range of media, McCarthy’s project pulls from mass culture, fusing high-brow and kitsch references to evoke a range of feelings, from intense familiarity to deep disgust. This work includes a recent film that gleans inspiration from John Ford’s 1939 Western Stagecoach that stars John Wayne. Taking the form of a spin-off, a phenomenon associated with the entertainment industry, this virtual reality work builds on an existing scene by McCarthy that stars his two characters, Mary Magdalen (played by Rachel Alig) and Eve (played by Jennifer Daley).
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