During her visit to Verona in the summer of 1983, as a guest of Francesco Conz, Charlotte Moorman was accompanied by a small group of people to a quet vine-yard in Valpolicella, where she created a performance of Giuseppe Chiari’s ‘Per Arco’.
Seated in her customary long concert gown, she played her cello and wept when she listened to recordings of machine-gun fire, mortars, tank, rifles and exploding bombs, such as might be heard on the sound track of a film about the Vietnam war.
At the end of hte performance she strayed away on a long walk through a nearby field of maize, still in concert dress and carrying her cello with her.
