BBBB IT(E)S OF OOTS

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Description

BBBB IT(E)S OF OOTS is a performance in which a black rubber work boot plays the leading role as a typographic performer and language-producing engine. The boot searches for an absurd in-between space between that which is flat, empty or full and acquires different forms as a result.

How do abstractions acquire animated and lived meaning, only to ‘fall flat’ again into a sign? How can language gestate itself in movement? And can the fragmentation of that same movement serve as a poetic and humorous language decomposition?

With the boot as the main character, ‘episodes’ are developed in which this form begins to express itself in a grammar of cutting, repeating, stuttering, falling …