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APPARITIONS In the artist’s words, M.2062 is a prospective and fragmented opera that incorporates “not only literature, movies and music but also quotations, adaptations, juxtapositions, games, and identities. It is an opera with author-characters such as Emily Brontë and Edgar Allen Poe, fictional characters drawn from movies and novels, and also real people who inspired extraordinary films that feature opera.” Since October 2012 GonzalezFoerster has impersonated several historical and fictional characters. The figures she has chosen have often been mediated by their cinematic depiction by iconic and/or brilliantly eccentric actors. Thus the artist noted that her performance of Gone with the Wind’s Scarlett O’Hara, for example, was “really Vivien Leigh performing Scarlett O’Hara.” Other examples of such conflations were Ludwig II as acted by Helmut Berger and Klaus Kinki as mad tropical impresario Fitzcarraldo. CHRONOLOGY OF APPARITIONS 2016 QM.16, Centre Pompidou, Paris, January 29, 2016 Sarah Bernhardt (M.2062) Marilyn Monroe (M.2062) Maria Callas (M.2062) 2015 It Looks Very Chaotic but Somehow It Makes Sense, Transformation Marathon, Serpentine Gallery, London (October 17) Pina Bausch (M.2062) 2014 M.2062 (la partie de l’opéra), Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris (October 24 – 31): Emily Brontë (M.2062) La Casati (M.2062) Anonymous (M.2062) Vera Nabokov (M.2062) Bob Dylan (M.2062) Vicki (M.2062) Red Shoes (M.2062) Morphy (M.2062) M.2062 (promenade avec Aschenbach), Biennale européenne d’art contemporain Manifesta 10, Hermitage Museum, Saint-Petersbourg (June 27) “14 Rooms,” Art Basel, Hall 3, Basel (June 19 – 22) M.2062 (Lola Montez), Circus Cabuwazi, Berlin (May 27) 2013 M.2062 (Edgar Allan Poe), Palais de Tokyo, Paris, (December 4) M.2062 (Scarlett), Parasophia: Kyoto International Festival of Contemporary Culture, Museum of Kyoto, Kyoto (September 6) M.2062 (The Boy with Green Hair), Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, (June 21) M.2062 (Ludwig), “Stage it! (Part 2),” Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (January 17) 2012 M.2062 (DGF), “Memory Marathon,” Serpentine Gallery, London (October 13) 76