Programme

La Ribot

Laughing Hole (2006)

Part of the RETROSPECTIVE LA RIBOT – Occuuppatiooon!

Duration 360 min

Three performers in coloured cleaner’s smocks are working their way through hundreds of cardboard signs that lie covering the floor. They hold up one sign after another before sticking them to the wall, filling the room with often politically tendentious phrases and slogans: “die here”, “Gaza party”, “immigrant on sale” or “impotent terror”. Meanwhile the performers of this absurd, existential durational performance laugh continuously for six hours to the point of exhaustion. An intense, disturbing experience, “Laughing Hole” was created as a reaction to the illegal U.S. prison at Guantánamo Bay and the ideology with which it is connected.

 

  • Cast

    Artistic Direction

    La Ribot

    Sound Design

    Clive Jenkins

    Sound

    Fernando de Miguel

    With

    Tamara Alegre, Olivia Csiky Trnka, Ruth Childs

    Light

    Eric Wurtz

    Technical Direction

    Marie Prédour

  • Credits

    Production: Galería Soledad Lorenzo – Madrid.
    La Ribot – Genève: Production Management & PR: Sara Cenzual.
    Administration: Gonzague Bochud.
    Distribution: Nicky Childs (Artsadmin, London).
    Distribution Spain: Paz Cecilia (Magale prod, Madrid)
    Distribution Visual Art: Angel Varela.

    La Ribot is being supported by Ville de Genève, République et canton de Genève and Pro Helvetia – Schweizer Kulturstiftung.

    With kind support of Pro Helvetia, Schweizer Kulturstiftung and Centre national des arts plastiques (CNAP), Paris.

    In cooperation with Sophiensæle.

Past dates

Sat 12.8.

from 14:00 to 20:00 Sophiensæle Festsaal

Location

Sophiensæle Festsaal
Sophienstr. 18, 10178 Berlin

The Kantine is at ground level and accessible without steps. The Festsaal (1st floor) and Hochzeitssaal (3rd floor) can be reached via an elevator (1.76 m x 2.71 m) when accompanied by the house staff. To use the elevator please contact our evening staff. The distance from the street to the elevator is approx. 60 m.

An accessible toilet (entrance door 1m in width) is available on the 1st floor and can be reached via the elevator. It can be accessed via the Festsaal foyer. For events in the Hochzeitssaal there is a WC on the 3rd floor with an entrance and cabin door 81 cm wide, the other cabin doors are 56 cm wide. From the 3rd floor as well as from the ground floor you can reach the accessible WC on the 1st floor by using the elevator.

Wheelchair users and persons with impaired mobility are requested to give advance notice by barrierefreiheit@sophiensaele.com or ringing the venue at 030 27 89 00 35. 
Further information:  https://sophiensaele.com/en/service/barrierefreiheit

 

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