Gob Squad
Room Service - Help Me Make It Through The Night

8 and 9 May, 8 pm
Laguna hotel, Kranjceviceva 29

Two women, two men, four bedrooms, one hotel. Everything they need is delivered to their doors. One problem: none of them can sleep - instead they kill time in cold baths or by finding comfort in the solace of the hotel mini bar. Free to do what they want each is being watched by a camera as they make up imaginary friends, rehearse dance routines and invite the audience to fulfill dreams and answer difficult questions. Room Service messes around with the reality cliché, leaping from finely tuned banality to chaotic theatricality.

In the conference room of the hotel the audience will watch the four performers on a fourway split screen projection. In the anonymity and discretion of the hotel environment the performers will enact forbidden games and unlived desires at the request of the audience.

Room Service - an invitation to play with an open end. The audience will decide who will visit who and how. What outcome will those meetings have? A party or everybody staying alone? Will members of the audience leave their position as voyeurs and get into direct contact with the performers, will they play a role?

Gob Squad is a group of English and German artists who have been working collectively with performance, media and new technology since 1994. Gob Squad produces performances, installations, films, and live events.

The group believes that pleasure and entertainment should stand side by side with conceptual rigour and an uncompromising approach to artisic innovation. They instinctively work in a variety of forms, making the framing of each project central to its artistic concerns.

Currently based in Brlin and Nottingham, the company has always sought to produce and present its work outside of arts institutions, often siting its projects in urban environments such as offices, houses, shops, car parks and railway stations, as well as producing work for radio and internet broadcast and pieces for galleries and theatres.

Further reading:

interview with the Gob Squad team - Laguna Hotel, 9 May 2004

Gob Squad - extras



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