Presented within a postgraduate seminar for Theater Sciences students at the Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich, this performance was meant to go on for 26 hours and 30 minutes. In that time-frame, performers would take shifts to read Melville's complete text, to swing a 40-kilogram meat rack as a metaphorical bait invoking the white whale -here embodied by a female performer with a knife as her sole attire-. They would write or draw impressions in a logbook, review quotes from the Bible and Shakespeare that echo in Moby Dick, they would play piano and violin, prepare a sophisticated fish-based dinner, and play classical records from Romantic period in a double DJ-turntable, scratching, pitching and looping the tracks into the shape of the whale’s song or lament.

With
MALTE BARTZ
ADRIAN BREUL
JULIA FRIEDENBERGER
TOBIAS GINSBURG
SARAH HOLTKAMP
JUDITH HUMMEL
CHRISTOPHER KLOE
ZLATKO KRAJINOVIC
ANDREA JULIETTE MAIR
JASMIN MENRAD
CAROLIN MILLNER
SERKAN SALIHOGLU
TOBIAS STAAB

Piano
CAROLIN MILLNER
Violin
SARAH HOLTKAMP
DJ
ZLATKO KRAJINOVIC

Text
HERMAN MELVILLE
Artistic production
JORG VON BRINCKEN
Concept, directed by
EMILIO GARCÍA WEHBI
MARICEL ALVAREZ


Ludwig-Maximilian Universitat, Munich, Alemania, 2007.

Fotos Emilio García Wehbi