The Hole & Corner Travel Agency
concept and direction Marga Socias
26 - 28/01/23
Montjuïc
Show completed
from 15:00 to 23:00
performance on loop
25'
Plaça Margarida Xirgu
In English no subtitled
Free
Dutch artist Dries Verhoeven explores the world of artificial happiness that is increasingly available in the form of drugs, painkillers and antidepressants.
In his work Happiness theatre maker and visual artist Dries Verhoeven presents an installation-performance in continuous session. A small concrete building is situated in the public space. It looks like a cross between a public toilet and a pharmacy. This illicit store is manned by a humanoid, a human-looking robot. She talks to us about different drugs, painkillers and antidepressants we can use to tweak our emotional reality by re-jigging the serotonin and dopamine levels in our brain. In the combination of robotics and drugs, the work explores the zone where the human and the artificial merge; where, aided by synthetic substances we can rehumanise or become more than human. Or escape our human state entirely, for a while.
Show premiered on 01/08/19 at the Boulevard Festival Den Bosch (Netherlands).
Other shows of Katharsis 2023
Stefano Trambusti
Annie Saunders
Hella Godee
Chris Creatures Filmeffects
Sylvain Vriens
Saskia Schoenmaker
Jimi Zoet
Bart van de Woestijne
Roel Evenhuis
Peer Thielen / Titus Duitshof
Studio Dries Verhoeven
SPRING Festival Utrecht (NL) and Stichting NDSMwerf (NL)
Fonds Podiumkunsten, Gemeente Utrecht, BPD Cultuurfonds, Fonds Fentener van Vlissingen, stimuleringsfonds creatieve industrie, Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst and BNG Cultuurfonds
26 - 28/01/23
Montjuïc
26 and 27/01/23
Montjuïc
27 and 28/01/23
Montjuïc