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*OR*


' Dumb Type Dumb Type

Dumb Type's new production, in both performance and installation, is a "grey humour" reflection on the zone[s] between life and death.

OR – binary system
OR – Alternative A or B
OR – 0[zero] radius – invisible circle – point/dot
OR – operation room

It is about the state of "white out" like in a blizzard, where you are deprived of the ability to see, where you can't recognize anything, where you don't know whether you are alive OR dead.

But what distinguishes one from the other?
Where is the border?
What is death?
What is it?

Images of death, looked at from various viewpoints, be it religious, philosophical, medical, cultural or emotional, are projected on a white semicircle screen and a white, open stage, flooded in flickering light. An advanced technique of combining electrical images, sounds, lighting and performers, which is Dumb Type's specialty, aims at switching off any intentions of grasping this mortal phenomenon, and bringing you into the white out.