- 09.09.2012, 6 p.m.€ 17 / reduced € 8
What happens when you’ve been together more than 19 years like the members of Gob Squad? When you know each other inside out? When your private and professional lives are completely inseparable? When you have grown, matured and aged together, shared relationships, love, children, an office and artistic visions and produced over 30 pieces of work, shared fame and failures… and still haven’t had enough? And still want to go on? – You become a seven-headed monster with a schizophrenic identity, a bisexual, binational and bilingual hermaphrodite, a patchwork family of seven social utopian control freaks.
Painfully honest and brutally funny, Gob Squad deconstruct themselves in Are You With Us?. Together with the audience, the performers attempt to reconstruct how they became what they are today. Anything can go wrong. Everything is open. Everything is at stake.
Concept: Gob Squad * By and with Johanna Freiburg, Sean Patten, Berit Stumpf, Sarah Thom, Bastian Trost, Simon Will as well as Sharon Smith and Miles Chalcraft * Production: Gob Squad * Co-production: Hebbel am Ufer and De Montfort University Leicester.
Half group therapy/Half performance nightmare.
In German and English.
Biography
Gob Squad
www.gobsquad.com
Gob Squad „ist ein siebenköpfiges Monster mit einem Körper, ein Künstlerkollektiv mit vielen Bossen, eine schizophrene Identität und mehrfach gespaltene Persönlichkeit – bisexual, binational, bilingual, eine Patchwork-Familie und eine soziale Utopie.“ So beschreibt sich das britisch-deutsche Performance-Kollektiv, das heute mit seinen hemmungslos selbstreflexiven und trickreich interaktiven Video-Performance-Formaten rund um den Globus tourt.