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Performance / Ship of Fools / Gardar Eide Einarsson
Tuesday, January 10 / Doors 7:30pm |
untitled (...and then your wages, your blankets, and your right to suck cocks won't do you any good, because we'll all drown)
2005, thirty nine wool blankets |
Gardar Eide Einarsson will stage a one-night performance of "Ship of Fools", a play written by Theodore Kaczynski while incarcerated for murdering four people and injuring many others. The performance engages with the theatre’s history as a vehicle for the avant garde, and makes comment on theatre’s inert and ineffective role in contemporary cultural practice.
"Ship of Fools" is a parable about technology, apocalyptic drives and human progress - the same issues that fueled the bombing spree that Kaczynski was eventually jailed for. The staging highlights the relationship between ways of expressing political ideas and oppositional desires – from the socially sanctioned cultural product to the extreme act of violence – and how they both end up as contingent and even clumsy translations of these ideas and translations. |
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