David Marcel Levine (b. 1970) is a theater professor and visual artist best known for his exhibition Some of the People, All of The Time. This solo show at the Brooklyn Museum had actors portraying "fake people" and reciting monologues Levine wrote for them. The New York Times called it some of the best art of 2018. Levine is currently Professor of the Practice of Performance, Theater, and Media at Harvard University. Levine's work encompasses performance, installation, and video. He has done other performance installations including Bauerntheater, Farmers’ Theater in 2007, a project in Joachimsthal, Germany sponsored by the German Federal Cultural Foundation in which he paid actors to learn to work like farmers and perform farming before a paying audience. This was an earlier example of his later themes of "acting as a technique for absolutely turning into someone else." In 2012 he created the "theater project" Habit in which the audience is mobile, viewing the performance through the windows of a house, moving from vantage point to vantage point as the action moves. The actors in Habit worked for eight-hour days, repeating the same 90 minutes worth of lines written by playwright Jason Grote. In the summer of 2015, he staged a piece of experimental theater where actors would replay short iconic scenes from movies, repeatedly, for a six-hour stretch in eight locations in what The New Yorker called "A Real-Life GIF in Central Park". Levine worked as a theater director in New York and Berlin before branching out into conceptual art. He created an exhibit called Hopeful at the Feinkost gallery in Berlin, which was a collection of actors' headshots collected from the trash cans of New York casting agencies, a meta-commentary on the headshot-as-object.
David Marcel Levine (b. 1970) is a theater professor and visual artist best known for his exhibition Some of the People, All of The Time. This solo show at the Brooklyn Museum had actors portraying "fake people" and reciting monologues Levine wrote for them. The New York Times called it some of the best art of 2018. Levine is currently Professor of the Practice of Performance, Theater, and Media at Harvard University.