Escalators Become Stairs
- 2016
- 11m
In 2007, a portion of the poem 'The Wound Dresser' (1865) by Walt Whitman was inscribed into the granite wall around the north entrance escalators of the Dupont Circle Metrorail Station in W... Read allIn 2007, a portion of the poem 'The Wound Dresser' (1865) by Walt Whitman was inscribed into the granite wall around the north entrance escalators of the Dupont Circle Metrorail Station in Washington, D.C. A site-specific performance was staged and filmed there on May 24, 2014. P... Read allIn 2007, a portion of the poem 'The Wound Dresser' (1865) by Walt Whitman was inscribed into the granite wall around the north entrance escalators of the Dupont Circle Metrorail Station in Washington, D.C. A site-specific performance was staged and filmed there on May 24, 2014. Performers rode the escalators continuously with smart phones, cassette recorders and hand-... Read all