Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
– 24 Hours through the Utopian West
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With: Biancchi/Macras, Gob Squad, Peter Kastenmüller, Jan Klata, Chris Kondek, Anna Sophie Mahler, Richard Maxwell, Mariano Pensotti, Philippe Quesne, She She Pop, Anna Viebrock, Jeremy Wade and the video animation „My best Thing“ by Frances Stark
In 2012, HAU Hebbel am Ufer staged a 24-hour theatrical marathon inspired by David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest. Across the city of Berlin, artists transformed peripheral sites into fragments of the novel’s imagined Boston. Jeremy Wade, together with Jared Gradinger, staged an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting at 7 a.m. in a school cafeteria, the twelfth hour of the durational performance, staying true to the novel’s form. The project involved a wide range of artists including Gob Squad, Anna Viebrock, Richard Maxwell, Philippe Quesne, Jan Klata, Mariano Pensotti, Anna Sophie Mahler, Chris Kondek, She She Pop, and many others. Audiences traveled from site to site for a quasi-endless viewing, where literature, theater, and performance bled into a city-wide hallucination.
In 2012, HAU Hebbel am Ufer staged a 24-hour theatrical marathon inspired by David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest. Across the city of Berlin, artists transformed peripheral sites into fragments of the novel’s imagined Boston. Jeremy Wade, together with Jared Gradinger, staged an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting at 7 a.m. in a school cafeteria, the twelfth hour of the durational performance, staying true to the novel’s form. The project involved a wide range of artists including Gob Squad, Anna Viebrock, Richard Maxwell, Philippe Quesne, Jan Klata, Mariano Pensotti, Anna Sophie Mahler, Chris Kondek, She She Pop, and many others. Audiences traveled from site to site for a quasi-endless viewing, where literature, theater, and performance bled into a city-wide hallucination.
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In Co-Production with the Hebbel am Ufer Berlin.
Funded by the City of Berlin.
Funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation and the German Federal Agency for Cultural Education.