1984 – Back to No Future
Sort/Hvid and Teater Momentum have invited the internationally acclaimed art collective Gob Squad to Denmark with their new production 1984 – Back to No Future.
It’s 1984 and the Cold War is in full swing. The Americans have invented a powerful new weapon: the music video. Millions of dollars are spent beaming images of decadence, excess, power, sex, and transformation into the world’s televisions. Gob Squad travel back in time to confront themselves as teenagers, the principal targets of this media revolution. They find themselves fearful of nuclear war, enthralled by pop videos, uncertain of who they might become. As the performers remember themselves and reconstruct the media fantasies of that time, they also start to dismantle what may have been written into the programming code underlying this colourful world of commercial pop. Were these teenagers masters and mistresses of their own bodies, their own fates and their own abilities to control and shape things? Or were they ready-made templates, destined to follow a bigger plan? Can they re-programme their own story? Or at least see with different eyes? Who and what is missing from the picture?
ABOUT GOB SQUAD
The British-German art collective, Gob Squad, is internationally known for their unique interactive performances, combining audience interaction with real-time video editing. They use refined recording techniques enabling them to interact with the urban space surrounding the place where they are performing. Popular culture such as music videos, Hollywood films and Andy Warhol art movies are often part of their works exploring the space between everyday life and magic, banality and utopia, reality and entertainment.
1984 – Back to No Future
Sort/Hvid and Teater Momentum have invited the internationally acclaimed art collective Gob Squad to Denmark with their new production 1984 – Back to No Future.
It’s 1984 and the Cold War is in full swing. The Americans have invented a powerful new weapon: the music video. Millions of dollars are spent beaming images of decadence, excess, power, sex, and transformation into the world’s televisions. Gob Squad travel back in time to confront themselves as teenagers, the principal targets of this media revolution. They find themselves fearful of nuclear war, enthralled by pop videos, uncertain of who they might become. As the performers remember themselves and reconstruct the media fantasies of that time, they also start to dismantle what may have been written into the programming code underlying this colourful world of commercial pop. Were these teenagers masters and mistresses of their own bodies, their own fates and their own abilities to control and shape things? Or were they ready-made templates, destined to follow a bigger plan? Can they re-programme their own story? Or at least see with different eyes? Who and what is missing from the picture?
ABOUT GOB SQUAD
The British-German art collective, Gob Squad, is internationally known for their unique interactive performances, combining audience interaction with real-time video editing. They use refined recording techniques enabling them to interact with the urban space surrounding the place where they are performing. Popular culture such as music videos, Hollywood films and Andy Warhol art movies are often part of their works exploring the space between everyday life and magic, banality and utopia, reality and entertainment.