Footage by Chris Casey
“…I was positively living, in an intellectual sense, on sawdust, which had moreover, already been chewed for me in thousands of other mouths.”
Franz Kafka, Letter to His Father
Inspired by Kafka’s writings on education, this piece features a student attempting to consume the knowledge in the books he’s been given but, finding them rotting away, he tries literally ingesting the pulp oozing from the bindings. He continues this unaware of the four figures straining to support him and his tabletop.
Performed with John Kurzynowski, Maggie Rubin, Hugh Trimble, and Merlin Whitehawk
Sound design by Eben Hoffer and John Kurzynowski
Presented at Triskelion Arts, November 22nd, 2013