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DESCRIPTION:Event Name: (for the purpose of catching ourselves in the act o
 f being the most)\nEvent Url: http://www.artsboston.org/event/detail/44151
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 vent Date Begin: 2012-01-19\nEvent Date End: 2012-01-20\n\nA two-day\, uni
 nterrupted performance installation masquerading as a world record attempt
 .\n\nThe Generalist will be staging the longest phone conversation between
  two people as both a performance art installation and a world record atte
 mpt scrutinized by Guinness World Records.\n\nThis project maps one absurd
 \, hilarious\, commercial institution (super-low art) onto another (super-
 high art) in playing by both of their rules at once. The project explores 
 the irony of exhibiting interactions that are by definition private in an 
 exposed\, public setting.\n\nDrop in and out of the Adams Pool Theater (ht
 tp://maps.google.com/maps?q=42.371557\,-71.116422&num=1&t=h&vpsrc=6&ie=UTF
 8&ll=42.37164\,-71.116479&spn=0.000671\,0.001117&z=20) on January 19th & 2
 0th to watch two people -- and a discourse -- deteriorate intellectually\,
  emotionally\, and physically\, over the course of at least 43 hours\, 8 m
 inutes\, 55 seconds.\n\nThe public is warmly invited to participate in the
  performance. Come and go as you please. Congregate. Pinch us to make sure
  you're alive\, pour ice down our shirts. Be creative. You're not coming t
 o watch. You're coming to play.\n\nThe Generalist is an art collective tha
 t produces playful\, socially motivated installations and interventions us
 ing the Harvard community as our medium.\n\nNot able to make the performan
 ce? Follow the event online: \n\nEric's Stream: http://www.ustream.tv/chan
 nel/aworldrecordattempt \nAvery's Stream: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/aw
 orldrecordattempt2\nhttp://twitter.com/#!/hgeneralist\nhttp://hgeneralist.
 tumblr.com/\nhttp://forthepurposeofcatchingourselvesintheactofbeingthemost
 .com/\n\nSponsored in part by Pingo.com.\n\nStart time: 12:01am on Thursda
 y\, 1/19\, through at least 7 pm on Friday\, 1/20.
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