Thursday 12 November 2009

Per Hüttner – Deja-Vu (Shenzhen Metro)





Per Hüttner – Deja-Vu (Shenzhen Metro)

Per Hüttner’s performance engaged four young local actors of similar height and appearance. They were dressed in identical clothes and carried a plant. When they entered the train, they received a phone call from an older version of themselves, but the connection was bad. So each of them had to get off. According to an intricate system the four men moved in and out of the underground trains, so that the people on the train saw the exact same actions and conversations repeated four times by four people