Tim Youd Will Retype William Gass' Mammoth 'The Tunnel' On Livestream

From St. Louis Public Radio:

In collaboration with the Contemporary Art Museum, Tim Youd plans to retype William Gass' mammoth The Tunnel.

“During the course of the quarantine, I was thinking, ‘What could I do? Is there a performance that would fit this particular moment?’ I came upon ‘The Tunnel’ and I thought: ‘This is the ideal quarantine novel. It’s not literally about a quarantine, but it is in effect about a man who’s trapped in his own mind and his own circumstances, and he’s trying to get out of it.”

And, he added, “It felt like a weighty book for this weighty moment, and I’d done my work with CAM St. Louis already, so it felt like a natural extension to do something virtually with them.”

To watch Youd at work, listeners are encouraged to visit tunnelretyped.com. The videostream will be live from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. CDT each day.

For more information about Bill Gass, former professor of Philosophy, see here.