It's the cosiness that draws you into theatre designer Kai Fischer's moodily lit installation and performance piece.
It's the cosiness that draws you into theatre designer Kai Fischer's moodily lit installation and performance piece.
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Neil Cooper
The listener might never guess where the words being uttered in such soothing female tones through speakers attached to a series of wooden platforms are taken from.
Once you realise they are drawn verbatim from the catalogue for the Nazi-organised Degenerate Art Exhibition that took place in Munich in 1937, the piece takes on a new measure of seriousness. The exhibition, organised by Adolf Hitler and his cronies, aimed to deride and discredit anything the state could not control or understand.
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