Burning Ice #4

Together with fifteen performers the director Jan Ritsma presents a theatrical show with stylistic references to Ariane Mnouchkine, The Wooster Group, Bob Wilson, William Forsythe and The Nature Theater of Oklahoma. Oidipous, my foot shows an Oedipus who takes his fate into his own hands.

What do you do if you win the Lottery and suddenly become a millionaire? In Investment, the renowned performers Davis Freeman and Jerry Killick go through several options: help the local orphanage, buy the ‘right’ shares and earn even more money, help young artists, or simply buy the latest Ferrari. Investment playfully questions the ethics of investing.

For two years the Austrian film-maker Nikolaus Geyrhalter focused his camera on the European food industry to show us what happens to our food before it reaches us. Geyrhalter deliberately does not comment, but allows the images to speak for themselves by focusing only on the monotonous drone of engines. What price are we willing to pay for our daily bread? The Antwerp band DAAU composed a soundtrack for Our Daily Bread and plays this live at the screening.

In 2005 the Argentinian collective Etcetera, a group of artists, poets, actors and puppeteers, founded Errorist Internacional on the occasion of George W. Bush’s visit to the Summit of the Americas in Mar del Plata. Their motto was ‘Todos somos erroristas’. Indeed, in our capitalist society to err is human, and even necessary. 

Six tents and a car together form a temporary zone for social and economic change. A group of artists have been invited by Radical_Hope to set up this out-of-the-ordinary “camp”. You can then stay and get involved in the week-long process of action that aims to generate ideas: ideas about new ways of organising work, urban food production, alternative energy management, innovative financing schemes and so on.

Economists, philosophers and artists tackle the blind faith in perpetual economic growth, the all-regulating market price and the neutrality of money. They make proposals for introducing other values and principles into economic reasoning.

morice delisle (Various Artists) adopts the condition of an animal: he feeds and clothes himself with purely animal products. He examines how sustainability can influence the relationship between living and working in an age of overconsumption.

The American group The Yes Men puts the big shots of this world to shame (the World Trade Organisation, McDonald’s, Dow Chemical, etc.). They create fake websites, publish fake newspapers, speak at conferences, make guest appearances on TV shows and so on. We present their editions of the New York Post and the New York Times and the video The Yes Men Fix The World.

The threat of climate change looms over all of us. What can we do right now? The Ministry of Trying to Do Something About It have issued ration books so you can play your part in transforming our world into a cleaner and more equitable place. Try it. You might find that consuming less opens a whole new world of possibilities.

CANCELLED! Cry Me A River deals with the complexity of climate change communication and its rhetorics. It plays with the monologue format, focusing in on the multiplicity of talking heads, voices and opinions buzzing around this topic.