The Freddie Mercury Photocopied Tribute Concert

Technical Sheet

Title

The Freddie Mercury Photocopied Tribute Concert

Year

2011

Technique

video, dur: 80 min, edition: 1 + 1 AP

Exhib.

VII Campus di Montecatini, Teatro Verdi, Montecatini (Pt), 2010 Easy Come Easy Go, Casa Testori, Novate Milanese (MI), 2011 Biennale Giovani Monza 2011, 2011

Notes

On the occasion of the 2010 Montecatini Campus, Andrea Mastrovito organized his second photocopied concert (after Queen + Gbmms Live at Wembley '86 in 2008) based on the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert in April 1992, the concert dedicated to the memory of Queen's singer, which saw dozens of international stars take turns on stage, from Metallica to Elton John, from Liza Minelli to David Bowie, and even Guns and Roses.
Working with about 20 students from a school in Calabria, extrapolating and printing every single musician and musical instrument from the original tribute video, Mastrovito re-enacted the entire concert in playback in front of over a thousand people.

The video of the performance won the first prize at the 2011 Monza Youth Biennial.

Technical Sheet

The Freddie Mercury Photocopied Tribute Concert, trailer

The Freddie Mercury Photocopied Tribute Concert, photodocumentation of the performance held on Oct 22, 2010 at Teatro Verdi, Montecatini

The Freddie Mercury Photocopied Tribute Concert, framestill from video