A Reflect-able Spectacle: Murano’s Mad Mirror Mob | Odd Salon SPECTACLE 4/7
Channel: Odd Salon
Date: 2019-02-15

In the 15th century, the famed glass artists of Venice formed an elite panel called the "Council of Ten” to stringently protected the widely coveted secrets of their mirror making techniques, going so far as to cloister their craftsmen on an island called Murano. But their secret of reflection technology could not be held for long.

Casey Selden ~ A Reflect-able Spectacle: Murano’s Mad Mirror Mob

Odd Salon SPECTACLE: Opening Night Year Six. Six short stories of grandiose visions and impractical performances, immense exhibitions, and displays that inspire wonder and curiosity.

Recorded live 2/12/2019 at Public Works, San Francisco, CA

Curated by Isolde Honore
Edit, Camera, Post production: John Adams
Sound:  Steen
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