The fear of new economic collapses is a constant discomfort and Liebmann/Barkan attempts to prepare us for the next chock by looking at our understanding of economy and the leeway we may or may not have.

ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE

Don’t Pay Your Debts is a trivial workshop for serious people. A performance that penetrates, exposes, and ridicules the hyper-object of ECONOMY that rules our life, and threats our common future. Andreas Liebmann and Boaz Barkan continue their workshop-performance series, this time discovering the poetics of economy.

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ABOUT LIEBMANN/BARKAN (CH/IL/DK)

Liebmann and Barkan have worked together for several years, developing performances to address local and international issues. Beginning with ‘Tårnby Får Besøg’, a performance film with and by residents of Tårnby – re-enacting the Hollywood film E.T. Later they developed a series of performances titled ‘Total international (Local)’ (in collaboration with Teater Får302 and selected for the Det Frie Felts Festival) to address the role and identity of the artist as a local and international agent. Their performances are participatory and inclusive on different levels and are rooted in experimental performance.

In a previous work, Andreas Liebmann had staged David Graebers ‘Debts – the first 5000 years’ together with Theater Freiburg and Schauspiel Stuttgart, which was awarded one of the ten best performances in Germany on the selection Nachtkritik- Theatertreffen.

Barkan is currently completing ‘Kend Dig Selv’, a performance about internalised racism and islamophobia, and ‘Familiedansen’ that stages real families into a dance performance.

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MANAGING DISCOMFORT PERFORMANCEFESTIVAL

In the spring of 2024, Toaster and Live Art Denmark present the performance festival MANAGING DISCOMFORT, which includes a number of Danish and international artists whose works have the common denominator that they all deal with discomfort, but process it with care and humor.

The festival stretches over seven weeks and each week two new performances are presented, which are staged as a double-bill at Husets Teater. This means that one ticket gives access to both performances, which are separated by a short break.