LIPS&KNOBEL

UNDERKILL: REPRESSION used to be OVERKILL: RAGE ROOM
*OVERKILL: RAGE ROOM is cancelled due to safety concerns

!!*$#%*??//@^&&^#$#!!! LIPS&KNOBEL invite you to join them in their research into anger, joy and destruction. In their installation OVERKILL: Rage Room you get the chance to bring full vent to an exhibition of objects. This experiment is part of their research for the visual performance OVERKILL they are developing for Over het IJ Festival this summer. 

OVERKILL will be a performance about destruction and perversity. Destruction can be gruesome and wasteful, but it also has a great attractive force. Energy starts flowing, things get into motion. And as women we have been told to suppress our anger even though anger is a very useful and activating emotion. It lets you know when your boundaries are being crossed and it gives you the energy to do something about it.
With this performance we re-educate ourselves in the anger department. We look for joy, humor and beauty in destruction. For activation and liberation. We list things we want to destroy, things we must destroy, how to destroy them. We get anger training (to nót manage it). We grunt. Rewrite history. Create an army of women instead of men. Make a device to break something as much as possible. Seduce the audience to participate. Destroy all the phallic baseball bats, ejaculating guns and penetrating swords. Level everything with a tank and destruct that tank as well. Look for the limit and cross it with fervor. Overkill.

LIPS&KNOBEL graduated at the department of scenography at the Theatre school in Amsterdam, in 2013. After their graduation they continued working together as a visual artist duo. They made several performances and the installation A LITLLE UPSET. Starting from a fascination for civil disobedience, resistance and protest they use a visual approach to make work about societal issues. Questions like “would we use violence to achieve our ideals?” or “what does it mean to have a female body in this time and place?” are the starting point for a period of artistic research in images, text, theory and our own experiences. They use a lot of content from the current visual culture: images from the media, social media and pop culture. From this collected material they make layered concepts, in which the images seduce the audience to think. But of course they also try to change the world.
 

By: Sanne Lips & Liesje Knobel
Special thanks to: Over het IJ Festival, Feikes Huis, Het Huis Utrecht

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