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tue 24 april 7.00 pm>2.00 am • Galleria Accursio Kinkaleri and invited guests Wanted II Intuitions about the world waiting to become an established construction special project an initiative of the Siemens Arts Program in cooperation with Xing with Forced Entertainment (UK) Quizoola! durational performance: 6 hours conceived and devised by the company performers Forced Entertainment text Tim Etchells and the company design Richard Lowdon lighting design Nigel Edwards Quizoola! was originally developed as a text by Tim Etchells and co-commissioned by the NRLA and ICA Live Arts in 1996 Forced Entertainment is regularly funded by Arts Council England "Does Persia still exist? Why do people close their eyes when they sing? What is frost? Do you think that John Wayne was really brave ? Do you talk in your sleep?" Over many hours three performers in shabby clown make-up interrogate each other with a text of 2000 questions. They sit inside a circle of bare electric light bulbs, in the intimate surroundings of a ‘found space’. The audience is free to arrive, leave and return at any point as this extraordinary, marathon game of questions and answers is played out. Quizoola!is a live negotiation of what is real and what is performed - of what questions to ask and how to answer. Sometimes whispered, sometimes yelled, a barrage of questions are asked, from pop trivia through personal secrets, via pub-quiz and twisted philosophical search. Quizoola! explores the need people have for knowledge, certainty and definition through language. Dark, hilarious, absurd and intimate, it is a game that survives from moment to moment, a comical and sometimes brutal interrogation that soon gets out of hand. Quizoola! has been performed in New York, Beirut and throughout Europe, in cellars, the basement changing area of an old gymnasium and under railway arches, confirming Forced Entertainment's reputation as true innovators of contemporary British theatre. Forced Entertainment is a group of six artists formed in 1984 and led by director and writer Tim Etchells. Originally focused on making and touring theatre performances, the company’s work now spans theatre, durational performance / live art, gallery installation, video and digital media. They have continually strived to find new performance and theatre forms with which to describe contemporary urban life. Their work is emphatically a group creation – made during long months of improvisation and discussion and drawing on theatre itself as well as on cinema, music culture, literature and fine art. Forced Entertainment’s work has been presented throughout the world receiving great acclaim in cities from Amsterdam, Berlin, Brussels, London and New York to Beirut, Vienna, Helsinki and Zagreb. www.forcedentertainment.com |
