Raskin
«Whatwhatwhatwhatwhat»

With five faces distributed over five monitors placed on oversized wood chairs, it is a dramatic panel discussion. The viewer is free to either join the talking heads or to stay on the sidelines. The choreography of this work is dictated by language as language, by dialogue and polylogue, by onomatopoeia – or simply by silent glances and movements. Made with some prescience in 1990, the playful, absurd piece about language and communication stages the talk-show era as an incessant, media-based conversation going on above the viewers heads; lurking at the end of this process is the death of language: ‘Then I lost consciousness'.
Rotraut Pape and Andreas Coerper here make up the Raskin duo, which emerged from the larger performance group ‘Raskin Stichting ems'.

Rudolf Frieling