Escaping the Representation: Lieutenantenduetten, a critical performance by the Warme Winkel

Abstract

This performance questions the logics of representation and mimesis, blurs the borders between life and fiction, and mixes codes inherited from the theater, performance-art, and happening. It plays with art history to address the difficulty of art to create images in a globalized world, and more specifically, in the context of the current European economic crisis, which directly threatens the art scene in Holland.

Keywords

• Dutch Collective
• Site-specific
• Performative Acting
• Distance
• Representation