At 4:30 a.m., Raegan Truax is methodically rocking back and forth while holding a white, wooden rocking chair. The artist wears a white bra and a short skirt made of white gauze. While the streets of San Francisco's Tenderloin District are dark and empty in the early morning hours, the stage inside CounterPulse's theater is even darker. Walking into the theater feels like walking into a cocoon. Truax rocks slowly, her eyes closing and opening with the rhythm of her shifts in weight. She has already been performing for 19.5 hours and has 17.5 hours to go. Truax performs Citation for thirty-seven consecutive hours, beginning at 9 a.m. on Friday, September 22, 2017, and ending at 10 p.m. on Saturday, September 23.
To perform Citation, Truax stays awake for thirty-seven hours. She has thirty-seven hours of work to do, thirty-seven frames to fill. Conjuring ghosts is not something that...
