MIET WARLOP Inhale Delirium Exhale

Whenever living fuse boxes exploded, foam sausages flooded the stage or performances reached the sweaty heights of competitive sport at the summer festival over the past twelve years, it was usually a work by Belgian stage artist Miet Warlop. Her anarchic spectacles of color and form are sell-out hits on European stages and push the boundaries of theater in the direction of rock concerts and visual art. This is why Warlop will also be designing the Belgian pavilion at the next Venice Art Biennale (in the immediate vicinity of the Austrian pavilion, which will also be staged by another summer festival icon, Florentina Holzinger). Miet Warlop is now coming to Hamburg with her latest work, an ode to fantasy and art with six performers and three kilometers of fabric. Mountains and landscapes are created out of nothing, colorful and moved by stage storms, cloths wrap themselves around bodies, sometimes brutally, sometimes lovingly. In this way, Warlop creates overwhelming images that reflect the inner turmoil of her creative process and are nothing less than a cathartic cleansing ritual for the medium of theater.