[np] Infinite Jest on stage

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

http://www.hebbel-am-ufer.de/en/kuenstler/kuenstler_23700.html?HAU=1


Just as David Foster Wallace’s 1996 vision of the future leads us to
the signs of social fatigue in the grandiose delusions of our own society,
the technical antiquatedness of his science fiction world corresponds
nicely with the outdated but no less impressive architecture of 1960s
and 1970s Berlin. So twelve artists and companies whose works have been
linked with the HAU in recent years will outline twelve perspectives at
various locations from that era – thereby creating twelve visions of a
future seen in the past, basing their projects on the novel.
Between 10am and 10am of the following day, they will transform the tennis
club LTTC “Rot-Weiß” and its large Steffi-Graf-Stadion into the Enfield
Tennis Academy, the Vivantes Klinikum into the Ennet House Drug and Alcohol
Recovery House, the cafeteria of the Fontane-Haus in Märkisches Viertel
into the meetingroom for the Alcoholics Anonymous, the Teufelsberg and
the Umlaufkanal into secret meeting-places for the Quebec separatists
and US agents. On eight days in June, the novel with be laid out over
the city like a film, promising Berlin 24 hours of infinite jest – and
depression.