DAVID LEVINE was awarded a 2007 Kulturstiftung Des Bundes grant for BAUERNTHEATER, the film of which has screened in New York, Berlin, and Austria. His work, which fuses performance, theater, and visual art, has appeared in Europe and the USA at Documenta XII, Galerie Magnus Muller (Berlin), Gavin Brown@Passerby (New York) and HAU2 (Berlin), as well as appearing in Cabinet Magazine, the New York Times, ART/US, BOMB, and Theater der Zeit. He is the 2007 recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship for Cross-Disciplinary/Performative work, and a 2008 recipient of the Etants Donnés grant for VENICE SAV’D: A SEMINAR. He has directed conventional theater at the Sundance Theater Lab, the Atlantic Theater, Primary Stages, and the Vineyard Theater in New York.  He lives in New York and Berlin, where he is the Director of the Studio Program at the European College of Liberal Arts. He has also taught as a guest professor at the Institut fur Theaterwissenchaft at the Freie Universität Berlin, as well as guest seminars at the Kennedy School Berlin, Theaterakademie Hamburg, and Sarah Lawrence College in the USA.  He holds an MA in English Literature from Harvard University.

As ECLA aims to open dialogue between different disciplines, so does the Studio Program at ECLA aim to expand the definition of art-making to include the practices of theater and narrative film. Although Levine offers discrete courses in Installation and in conventional acting, the aim is to create an environment where, through shared studio spaces and equipment, as well as guest talks and  academic seminars like On the Spectacles, the disciplines can exist in dialogue with one another.

PUBLICATIONS:

David Levine, “Hopefuls” [photo portfolio], Cabinet, Fall, 2008 [forthcoming
Christian Hawkey, “Interview with David Levine,” in The Believer, Fall, 2008 [forthcoming]
Marvin Carlson, “David Levine’s Bauerntheater: The Return of the Matrix” in TDR, Fall, 2008 [forthcoming]
Alix Rule, “David Levine in Conversation with Alix Rule,” in Saatchi Gallery Online, July 2008
Hanne Seitz, “Alles nur Theater oder Wirklicher als die Wirklichkeit?”, in Paragrana, Spring 2008
David Levine, “Artist’s Journal: Bauerntheater”, in Theater, 28:2, Spring 2008
David Levine, “Interview with Michael Thalheimer”, in BOMB, 2007
Geoffrey Scott & Aaron Cedolia, “David Levine & Bauerntheater”, in BOMB Magazine, #100
Thomas Irmer, “Auf fruchtbarem Boden” in Shakespeare & Maska, July 2007, May 2008
Wolfgang Behrens, “Wer Erntet die Dickste Kartoffeln?”  in Theater der Zeit, June 2007
Anja Quickert, “Das Kartoffel-Konzept”, in TheaterHeute, June, 2007
Daniel Volzke, “Ertragreich,” in: Tagesspiegel , May 21, 2007
Sally McGrane, “An Actor Out Standing in his Field” in the New York Times, May 20, 2007
Sarah Rich, “Farming, Acting, and Critical Art,” Worldchanging, May 16, 2007
David Levine, Actors at Work, [portfolio] Cabinet, issue 25, April 2007
Max Glauner, “Die Kartoffeln sind Real,” Freitag, May 11, 2007
Falko Mueller, “Ein Landpartie,” Zitty Magazine, May 10.
Kerstin Decker, “Es riecht nach Regen” in Der Tagesspiegel, May 8, 2007
Max Glauner, “Ackern fur die Kunst,” Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, May 6, 2007
David Levine, “Bad Art & Objecthood,” in Art/US #13, May-June2006
David Levine, “Re-Public,” in Theater, 2005
David Levine, “Babylon is Everywhere,” in Theater, 2004
Tom Murrin, “David Levine,” in Paper,  2004