[spectre] New podcast: David Levine discusses the historical precedents of what he calls artistic "infiltrations" in everyday life.

[Radio Web MACBA]

New podcast: David Levine
<https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/david-levine-tag/capsula> discusses the
historical precedents of what he calls artistic "infiltrations" in everyday
life. Almost an hour chatting about reality and fiction, representation,
invisibility, loops, and disappearances of all kinds.

Link: https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/david-levine-tag/capsula

David Levine works in, with, or towards theatre, depending on how you look
at it. His background as a commercial theatre director and his deep
admiration for Minimalism and the Conceptual art of the second half of the
20th century overlap, complement each other, and brutally collide in a body
of work that constantly speaks about the limits, codes, spaces, methods,
and audiences of theatre. Levine's work draws from the profoundly popular
tradition of American realist theatre in order to carry out experiments
that are often profoundly unpopular, difficult to document, or simply
invisible. In "Bauerntheater" (2007), for example, Levine hired American
actor David Barlow to step into the shoes of a German farmer in the most
direct way possible: spending five weeks (after an initial month of
rehearsals in a Brooklyn studio) working ten hours a day on a hectare of
land in a field in Brandenburg, Germany. "Bauerntheater", which became
something of a media phenomenon, is a scathing commentary on the global
labour market, work, resistance, and authenticity.

In this podcast, David Levine discusses this piece and some of his other
works, as well as the historical precedents of what he calls
"infiltrations" in everyday life, such as Adrian Piper's The Mythic Being,
Vito Acconci's Following Piece, and Lynn Hershman Leeson's Roberta
Breitmore. Almost an hour chatting about reality and fiction,
representation, invisibility, loops, and disappearances of all kinds.

*Timeline*
02:00 Realism, real life, experiments
06:00 Visual arts and theater
10:01 Invisibility
12:13 Loops
20:04 Suspending disbelief
21:24 Minimalism
22:52 Objects, props, spaces and challenges
35:33 Standing out vs. blending in
43:24 Virtuosity, realism, work and reward
44:55 Head shots, failure, shame

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