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White Cube and Phaidon invite you to an in-conversation between Cerith Wyn Evans and Nancy Spector to mark the launch of Evans' Phaidon monograph.

White Cube, 144-152 Bermondsey Street, London

Monday, October 30

RSVP to talks@whitecube.com

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RSVP
(used at the end of a written invitation to mean 'please answer':)
法語 請帖的敬請賜覆縮寫（repondez s'il vous plait），

RSVP在約40年前就為Lawrence Halprin (1916–2009 )用在環境設計上(王錦堂譯)

The Sea Ranch

1995

The RSVP cycles

1970

還有(ReSerVation Protocol) A communications protocol that signals a router to reserve bandwidth for realtime transmission.

"Robert Lepage有套他的「R（Resorces），S（Scores），V（Valuations），P（Performance）」理論，發想由來是法語 請帖的敬請賜覆縮寫（repondez s'il vous plait），他將這些字眼巧妙地轉移到他作戲的準則。他說，「很久以前我開始作戲就這麼想了，好比說，我現在有套樸克牌，要成局的前提是有這副牌和玩牌 的人（Resorces），牌上的記號和我們要進行的遊戲規則便是S（Scores），拿到什麼樣的牌出什麼樣的招就是我們玩牌人的評價 （Valuations），結局要如何則是要玩了才知道！」這些種種鋪陳其實不光是借用「RSVP」的慣用術語，拿到劇場上來檢視，他希望演出不只是劇作 人、導演、編劇、演員和技術團隊的事情，而是要實質接收到現場觀眾實質的詮釋舞台上所有的一切。"