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Long Player

Longplayer

1,000 years in three simultaneous acts

Saturday October 16, 02010 - San Francisco, CA

Longplayer 7am-11:40pm at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Long Conversation 3pm-9pm at the Contemporary Jewish Museum

To everybody who attended and participated,

Thank You!

Longplayer & Long Conversation

As part of Longplayer, Long Now is hosting the Long Conversation, a relay of 19 speakers over 6 hours. This format came about as part of the Artangel Longplayer Conversations, produced by The Longplayer Trust in partnership with Artangel, a UK based arts organization founded in 01991, which "commissions and produces exceptional projects by outstanding contemporary artists" (among them, Longplayer). The first few Longplayer Conversations were envisioned as public conversations between leading cultural thinkers who had never met, to engage in a discussion inspired by the philosophical premise of a project which unfolds, in real time, over the course of a millennium. Laurie Anderson and Dorris Lessing inaugurated these conversations in 02005.

Only in 02009, for the first live performance of Longplayer, did the relay style Long Conversation develop. This first Long Conversation unfolded between 19 people over the course of 12 hours; all of the audio of the conversation is available online and to download.

Longplayer & Long Conversation was made possible through the generous support of
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, The Long Now Membership and our partners the
Contemporary Jewish Museum, SoSo Limited and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

Photos by Christian Payne.  |  Page design by Ben Keating.

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