The GRAND INQUISITOR by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 

Saturday, June 2 Noon - 7 pm & Sunday, June 3 Noon - 5 pm

Seaforth Park. Vancouver, B.C.

For all the unfinished experimental creatures created as a mockery;

for all those who have been climbing and who reached their end only to

discover that the ladder has fallen and that the entire time they believed

they were ascending they were only crawling;

for all those who have this muddy truth on their lips— the heaven I wished

to approach has become an oppressive ideal which only illuminates my

filthy hands and my bruised knees and my torn shoes;

for all those who are suspect citizens of dubious responsibilities;

for all those who refuse to turn away from the shameful reality which is that

freedom is usually the last thing people actually want, as it is usually the first
thing they are willing to relinquish whenever they are challenged;   

I will perform The Grand Inquisitor  from the Brothers Karamzov  by

Fyodor Dostoyevsky on Saturday June 2 from Noon until 6 pm beginning

in Seaforth Park (beneath the Burrard Street Bridge).

I will be writing the text from this chapter in chalk on the railway ties and will continue,

following the tracks as they cross 4^th Ave. and run along 5^th Ave until the chapter is finished.

I will see you there, and remember...

if you don't take your mind for daily walks it will shit in your house

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