until Sunday May 04 2014

Museum Of Contemporary Art Detroit
T : +1 313 832 6622
4454 Woodward Avenue Detroit
48201 Detroit
United States

"I Cancel All My Works at Death" is the first comprehensive survey of the actions and performances of James Lee Byars (Detroit 1932–Cairo 1997) to be presented in the United States.

Titled after Byars' now-famous speech act, it adopts the premise that the artist and his work are better misremembered than re-experienced.

"I Cancel All My Works at Death" takes a theatrical approach to an unconventionally theatrical artist, who referred to his actions and performances as "plays."