A shopping mall lies at the epicenter of this labyrinth. Suddenly a shabby curtain in the back whips open, somebody grabs your wrist, and you are pulled into the world of the show.īehind the curtain sixty performers populate an ant farm of disparate, stylized spaces. You clear your throat, wondering what is expected of you. Inside, an ogreish man thumbs through a magazine. A neon “WELCOME” sign glows in the window of a Spätkauf. All you know is that the show is loosely inspired by the life of the internet-famous cannibalistic killer Luca Rocco Magnotta. You receive a four-hour wristband and enter the installation. Inside the installation – which runs twenty-four hours a day, for ten days straight – a microcosm of Berlin continues to throng, complete with its own economy and social infrastructure. I am waiting for an Italian rentboy in sportswear to emerge through the backdoor. I have just left MEAT, a conceptual theater piece installed in the Schaubühne studios, directed by Swedish artist Thomas Bo Nilsson. I am standing on the corner of Kurfürstendamm and Albrecht-Achilles-Straße, kicking the ground. Article and images by Linus Ignatius in Berlin Friday, Apr.
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