Marshall Weber “24 Hour Performance”
Munch Gallery
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Marshall Weber will celebrate the 100th birthday of William S. Burroughs by doing a 24 hour non-stop solo recital mash-up of Burrough’s infamous The Nova Trilogy, which is formed by the cut-up novels: The Soft Machine, The Ticket That Exploded and Nova Express.
Weber has been doing solo, marathon recitals of literature in public spaces and on the streets since 1994, when he started “The Ulysses Cycle” with a 33 hour long reading of James Joyce’s Ulysses. The “Cycle” included a 72 hour long recital of the Old and New Testament at the Angel Orensanz Art Center (also in Loisaida) and ended with a 23 hour long recital of Homer’s Odyssey on the Staten Island Ferry during the 2004 Republican convention. In 2012 Weber did a 48 hour recitation of appropriated literature as part of Printed Matter’s “Helpless” exhibit and a 72 hour recitation of Beat poetry on the streets of San Francisco as part of the 2012 Streetopia Festival.
Weber creates these endurance pieces to challenge both his physical and mental limitations as well as the mounting constraints on the use of public space. The hallucinatory trance state attained while under the effect of sleep deprivation and fatigue blurs the lines between sleep and wakefulness, consciousness and unconsciousness, literature and reality, private and public, language and thought, and rational and mystical experience.
[Image: Artist Marshall Weber during Printed Matter’s ‘Helpless’ exhibit.]
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from February 05, 2014 to February 06, 2014