Beginning at the IDADA First Friday event at the Vonnegut Library (September 6th) and leading up to Banned Books Week, the Vonnegut Library is partnering with Coagula Curatorial to bring into town Los Angeles performance artist Tim Youd, who will type Vonnegut’s novel Breakfast of Champions on a single sheet of paper, using the same model of typewriter the author used and reading the text aloud.
Fresh off his back-to-back, critically-acclaimed typing performances of Henry Miller’s Tropic of ... view more »
Beginning at the IDADA First Friday event at the Vonnegut Library (September 6th) and leading up to Banned Books Week, the Vonnegut Library is partnering with Coagula Curatorial to bring into town Los Angeles performance artist Tim Youd, who will type Vonnegut’s novel Breakfast of Champions on a single sheet of paper, using the same model of typewriter the author used and reading the text aloud.
Fresh off his back-to-back, critically-acclaimed typing performances of Henry Miller’s Tropic of Capricorn (at both the Pulse Art Fair and on the Brooklyn sidewalk outside of Miller’s boyhood home) and Charles Bukowski’s Post Office (on the stairs of the Los Angeles Post Office, where Bukowski worked for 14 years), Tim Youd turns his attention to Kurt Vonnegut with his page-turning performance of Vonnegut’s Breakfast of Champions.
Dubbed "regional conceptualism," Youd performs his work in carefully chosen locales that are geographically related to either the author’s life or the plot of the novel. Utilizing the same make and model typewriter used by each author in its original creation, Youd types the novel on a single page, running it through the machine over and over. With each performance, Youd also constructs a tangible visual companion piece consisting of his sculpted typewriter "portraits,” as well as a self-portrait of himself reading the performed works.
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