Performative Installation. Red carpet, smoke machine, stage lights, standards, basketball.

VAN ABBEMUSEUM, EINDHOVEN, NL. 2010
Curated by Clare Butcher
Performers: Freek Lomme and Jozua Zaagman

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KUNSTNERNES HUS , OSLO. 2009
Performers Karen, Åse, Fadlabi and Rickard .

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Walk up the red carpet. Queen Beatrice sometimes walks on one, as do the yearly Nobel Prize winners. Other mortals who
walk red carpets include anyone attending the Beijing International Automotive Exhibition, GM executives and the
skinny models of the Detroit Auto Show. Guests in weddings from Sicily to Sydney watch couples walk down the carpet into
the rest of their lives. Agamemnon once said ONLY GODS WALK ON SUCH LUXURY. Red is sin, guilt and martyrdom
in Catholicism. Red peaches are fleshy immortality in Taoist myth. Wang Wei, 8th century poet, ends his famous poem
PEACH BLOSSOM JOURNEY with this pragmatic line: NO ONE KNOWS HOW TO REACH THAT IMMORTAL PLACE.
But the real question on most of our minds in this twilight capitalist dream is whether trance lights will celebrate our arrival.

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