In the work TOTAL INTERNATIONAL (LOKAL) #2 the Swiss performing artist Andreas Liebmann and the performer Boaz Barkan invite the audience into a domestic space containing a cello, a skateboard, old LP records and a portable gramophone. The two performers pose the question of how, as international artists, they can challenge the colonialist notion of conquering the world via air travel and digital communication. But travel is also about the imagination. The audience is therefore invited to write a letter by hand. What access to others somewhere else in the world does this open? The work presents current issues in the midst of a climate crisis in a poetic and unpretentious way. The two performers ask, amongst other things: How can you communicate with people around the world with the help of the imagination? And how can you experience a distant place without actually being there? This is where art comes into play in indicating and expressing alternatives. 

Boaz Barkan holds a BA in Dance and Psychology from Cal-Arts and Empire State College, USA, teaches dance and Feldenkrais and he is the artistic director of nolands-performance et al.

Andreas Liebmann is educated at the Theaterhochschule Zürich Switzerland (Now ZHDK) and teaches direction at the Danish National School of Performing Arts. He is also the artistic director of the Tårnby Park Studio.

The play is in English.