Forced Entertainment. Speak Bitterness: our catalogue of confessions
“We’re guilty of homemade bombs and homemade wine. We’re guilty of coldness and spite. We never laughed and we never found the time....”
Over 6 hours a group of penitents, dressed in suits behind a long table, have the enormous task to confess to everything. They are by turns cowed, breezy, anguished, reluctant, jovial and determined. From somewhere between a mad catalogue of unlikely human infamy and the transcript of some strange and comical show-trial, they meet the gaze of the audience, speaking softly, drawing them in and admitting to it all.
Please note, this is a live stream of a six-hour durational performance taking place at Frascati, Amsterdam. You’re invited to arrive, depart and return at any point.
First presented in 1994 (Commissioned by National Review of Live Art Glasgow).
Please check the accessibility of the venue here.
