CO-WRITERS AND ARTISTS: Kristien De Proost/Lisi Estaras, Pitcho Womba Konga and Jana De Kockere/Simon Baetens
PLAYWright: Miguel Angel Melgares
CREATIVE CONSULTANT: Sodja Lotker
PRODUCTION MANAGER AND SCENEGRAPHER: Wim Clapdorp
PRODUCTION ASSISTANT: Valentine Galeyn
ASSISTANT SCENEGRAPHER: Pleun Verhees
COSTUME DESIGNER: Andrea Kränzlin
TECHNICAL DIRECTORS: Piet Depoortere and Jonas Lambrigts (Anne Meeussen/Jannes Dierynck)
PRODUCTION: CAMPO Gent (BE) i.a.w. Ism & Heit (Utrecht, NL)
CO-PRODUCTION: Frascati Producties Amsterdam (NL), Standplaats Utrecht (NL), SPRING Festival Utrecht (NL) and Schauspiel Leipzig (DE) |
PARTNERS: Performing Arts Fund NL, Fonds21, Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, We Are Public, Kickstart Cultuurfonds, the Flemish Community and City of Ghent
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"With a playful concept of construction and deconstruction, Hetzel disturbs the observer. As in previous performances, it subtly expresses an opinion about the consumer society."
Moos van den Broek, Theaterkrant For centuries art has been used as a tool to highlight the status of a nation, a leader or a political ideology. Images of Lenin, Hitler, Mao, Stalin or Leopold II are part of the collective memory. The monuments of these dictators are physical reflections of a specific regime, era, ideology, eternal and unchanging. In some cases, even the materials they are made of reflect trauma, such as the copper from the Congo mines that was used for the bust of Leopold II. So - welcome to the performance - installation "Mount Average"!
Julian Hetzel will invite the audience to take a walk through the factory of ideologies created by mankind. In this performance, the busts of historical figures, dictators, as mirrors of the static past, will be deconstructed and transformed by the joint efforts of the performers and the audience. In this way, the past will take on new forms, because as the director says - after all, everything is in our hands.
Spectator groups, consisting of 4 people, will be invited to the performance space-factory every ten minutes. Tour participants will visit four different rooms, where they will meet with images of a part of our collective memory, a certain regime, a specific era, ideology. Participants will spend 20% of the performance time standing (the remaining time sitting), and will also be invited to perform a few simple actions.
Julian Hetzel, in collaboration with theater director Kristien De Proost and rapper Pitcho Womba Konga, created a medium for the analysis of postcolonial discourse - a reflection of traditions, privileges, wealth, ideologies and totalitarian ideas in society. As the creators of the work claim, past traumas have been hidden for a long time, but our society is no longer able to avoid them and must face them.
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