Marcel was born as a performance/installation inspired by Duchamp and “The Wizard of Oz” (created during the recession of the late nineteenth century), bridging together the concept of contemporary crisis, which forces us to reinvent, deconstruct, rethink the world, and reuse its waste.

Italian Politics as a Work of Art is a Dada performance unfolding on two tracks: one follows the story of a man and a woman in an apocalyptic setting - a protracted blackout populated by a strange army; the other (the characters’ nightmares) is a readymade: a script assembled from the intercepted conversations from the “Ruby case”, involving the former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and an underage Moroccan girl.

"Possibly the most eclectic and sideways commemoration of the First World War at the Fringe."
- The Scotsman

Ursa Maior production