Habit is a durational performance installation created by provocateur David Levine, with a commissioned script by playwright Jason Grote (NBC’s Smash) and environment by Marsha Ginsberg. Within a four-walled, fully furnished and functional American ranch house (stocked refrigerator, working stove, plumbing, running water), three actors perform a 90-minute drama on a continuous loop for eight hours a day. Although the language never changes, they improvise the staging to suit their needs—when they’re hungry, they cook; when they’re dirty, they wash.
Spectators will circulate around the outside of the house, observing the action through the open windows and doors. A play contained within a sculpture, Habit fuses conventional theater, reality TV, and visual arts performance, short-circuiting our assumptions about spectatorship, performance, routine, and realism.
New York City, NY; NYC