The Land of No Curtains
The Land of No Curtains
Lunatics and Poets
Performative installation | 2022
Performative installation | 2022
In his kitchen, a man waters his flowers with his own tears. Further on, a strange karaoke scene plays out in the privacy of a bathroom. Inside these homes, so many micro-tributes in search of solutions to the tasks, struggles and pains of everyday life.
The Land of No Curtains is an immersive installation situated between theater of gesture, visual arts and cinema. It invites the spectator to move through a set of large and small houses, whose windows are open to the gaze and curiosity, revealing absurd and poetic scenes from everyday life. Lunatics and Poets uses holographic video, objects and the body to embody a society’s desires, hopes and dreams, as well as its deepest fears.
Production
Dark Euphoria
Le Grenier à Sel, Avignon
Financial partners
European Commission – Creative Europe | REAL-IN
Dutch Ambassy
Amsterdam Fund for the Arts
Creation
Anna Jacobs & Hanna Van Der Meer
Technology | Elgar Weijtmans
Performance | Olympia Kotopoulos
Actors | Arno Verbruggen, Michael Peter Johnson
Video | Eori Wakakuwa
Set design | Jan Jacobs
Lighting design | Samon Presland
Sound design | Tymon Bijlhout Axewood
Custom Music