In case you were wondering how the National held up playing “Sorrow” over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over at PS1’s WV Dome for Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansso’s A Lot of Sorrow collaborative piece with the band… That’s their set-list above and here they are, four hours in and on and on.
By stretching a single pop song into a day-long tour de force the artist continues his explorations into the potential of repetitive performance to produce sculptural presence within sound.
Like Vexations by Erik Satie. Pop culture music meets conceptual art meets endurance performance meets that fucking SONG, UGH MY SOUL HURTS SO GOOD SO SLOPPY AND SAD.
Suffer.
(“Set list” image and videos: Pitchfork)
