Guy Bourdin at FOAM
Why go to a photography exhibition when you can also view the photos in a book, a magazine or on your screen?
Alvis Hermanis: By Gorki
"By Gorki" by Alvis Hermanis is fascinating theatre. It is at once moving, funny and relevant. I was captivated from beginning to end.
Holland Animation Film Festival 2004
Every other year the Holland Animation Film Festival shows a selection of some of the best independent animation films of the past two or three years as well as a number of retrospectives and thematic programs. Here are some personal highlights of this year's festival.
Frank Castorf: Endstation Amerika
Somehow everything fits together in "Endstation Amerika" by Frank Castorf. Stage design, text, music, acting. This is why I go to the theatre.
Friedrich Christian Flick Collection at the Hamburger Bahnhof
It's been awhile since I spent half a day at an exhibition of contemporary art without feeling exhausted and wishing I could stay longer. At 13,000 square meters the Friedrich Christian Flick collection at the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin is about as large as the Documenta in Kassel.
Frank Castorf: Forever Young
It doesn't happen often that I go and see the same play twice. In Frank Castorf's stage productions there is usually so much going on that going to see it twice is almost required to take it all in.
Forced Entertainment: Bloody Mess
It is funny. Very funny. Very very funny. But after a while it gets boring. Very boring. But then it gets funny again. Very funny. So funny that you have to laugh. This is what you do when things are funny, especially when they are very funny, not to mention when they are very very funny.
Frank Castorf: Erniedrigte und Beleidigte
Watching Frank Castorf's adaptation of Dostoyevsky's "Erniedrigte und Beleidigte" feels like being invited to a family party where everybody knows each other, but nobody knows you.
Rene Pollesch: Pablo in der Plusfiliale
How should I integrate this into my sexuality? If you want to fuck globalisation, technology and the neo-liberal rhetoric of the new left, you have to deconstruct the whole notion of sexuality.
Donald Judd at the Kunstsammlung Nordrheinwestfalen
Tell me, what is so interesting about those bloody boxes?
Paul McCarthy: Brain Box Dream Box
Rubbing it in is what Paul McCarthy does, whether with paint, ketchup or chocolate sauce. Excess is the name of his game. McCarthy likes pushing things too far, in his drawings, but most of all in his performances, which always end up a complete mess.
Guy Cassiers: Proust 1 and 3
When Dutch theatre critics wrote of Guy Cassiers' adaptation of Marcel Proust's "A la recherche du temps perdu", that it was a masterpiece and that he was approaching perfection, I was at once curious and skeptical.