ANDY WEBSTER


RECONSTRUCTED MAVERICK FAÇADE 

RECONSTRUCTED MAVERICK FAÇADE  

In collaboration with Derek Tyman, and working with Peter Kees and Hubert Maier, the project reconstructed the wooden facade of the Maverick Concert Hall in Woodstock, New York, where John Cage's seminal work 4'33" (the silent piece) was first performed.

The structure was created to scale with timber from local Bavarian forests and situated at the Atelier Hubert Maier in Moosach, near Munich, Germany - an artists' studio and community, much like the community of artists who originally built the Maverick Concert Hall. The reconstruction of the Maverick-Façade was used as the location for a series of events, screenings, talks and performances (by invited artists, musicians) to reconsider and re-acknowledge the original story of the colony and to explore the idea of the ‘maverick’ in art, music, politics, and science. 

For the exhibition opening, Blech-Bagage, a local Bavarian brass band performed a version of 4'33" conducted by Peter Kees. After a month, the facade was deconstructed, and the timber was used to construct three performance spaces or stages at the Kunstverein Ebersberg for a series of performances on the 70th anniversary of the original performances of Cage's 4'33".

The work was developed with the support of the Kunstverein Ebersberg and Atelier Hubert Maier, Moosach, Bavaria, Germany [2022].