AUCTION/ACTION
An unusual performance installation that moves in the borderline field between fiction and reality.
17.4.15
18.4.15
12pm-8pm
Huset i Magstræde
The Artistic Research
Every year the enforcement authority sends more than 3000 people to the streets because they cannot pay their rent. The effects of the home - however personal they may be - are handed over to the police, who sell it on as a so-called “exposed living garden”. Vontrapp I bought one of these.
With the performance installation AUCTION/ACTION will Vontrapp invite the public to auction at SEARCHES, in which the audience is confronted with the ruins of a life. A sea of personal belongings will be put on display, and audiences will now have the opportunity to snoop, snoop and bid on another person's home for pennies.
AUCTION/ACTION is an unusual performance installation that moves in the borderline field between fiction and reality.
On Friday 17/4 at 15:00 - 20:00 and Saturday 18/4 from 12:00-20:00 the doors will be open for inspection. Here potential buyers can come and look at the used everyday objects, as well as closely study the catalog. On Saturday at 20:00 the auction itself will be settled when the auctioneer takes the podium.
The artists
Vontrapp (DK) is an interdisciplinary group that works with site-specific theatre concepts. They have previously been behind the abstract horror A Dream House (2011), the audiovisual walking performance Bevar mig vel (2012), and most recently the theatre installation A Handful of Dust (2014) in Cisternerne på Frederiksberg.
The format
SCANDINAVIAN PAIN.
AUCTION/ACTION appears on SEARCHES in connection with the Scandinavian Pain program series.