The best modernist architecture ballet I’ve ever seen. (Update: the embed doesn’t work with this video for some reason, but here’s another clip, taken from the earlier frantic naked man portion of the performance:)
Clearly, the Bauhaus transparency fetish is being parodied by the set designers cliche use of aligned screens to create a tenuous sense of enclosure. The couple’s initial mutual obsession is soon disrupted by their architectural environment — its perfect inorganic grid embodies the modernist ideal as enforced by a CAD operator ands lacks the flaws and deviations of humanity. Thus, our couple is consistently marginalized, able to subsist only as peripheral props in a set that dwarfs them. But, Alas (!), affinity deals structural determinism a cruel blow when the couple conquers their space, dethroning architecture, and securing a place for human existence in the cold, functional world.
Clearly.
Are these things supposed to have a narrative?
4 responses so far ↓
1 pshazz // Feb 22, 2008 at 3:33 pm
damn. vid is no longer working
2 Quixote // Feb 22, 2008 at 5:00 pm
Very unfortunate; I’ll try to fix that.
3 Quixote // Feb 23, 2008 at 1:52 am
Can’t make it work; you’ll have to see the wonder that is this trainwreck on youtube itself — use the link above.
4 pshazz // Feb 23, 2008 at 6:09 pm
daarn i got all excited when you said nekkid man. he ain’t nekkid, just scantily clad
Leave a Comment