The desire to build castles
A self-examination
Following ‘A Gesture to Find’ (2012) and ‘Travelling in Former Colonies’ (2014), ‘The Desire to Build Castles’ continues the Pilkentafel’s theatrical-performative reflection on colonialism and contemporary refugee policy.
What drove Europeans to conquer foreign lands and build castles there as their first act? This question is at the centre of a performative staging that ranges from the supposed discovery of Africa to today’s refugee policy. In 200 kilograms of sugar, the essential stage element and requisite, “entanglement and futility, loss and waste, abundance and weariness, … it is a self-examination of our colonial heritage on our colonial white body”. (Announcement of the production)
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