Juan Domínguez

What begins as an artistic self-interrogation by one of our favorite radical performers turns into an unexpected broadening of performance art.

At the 2013 and 2014 Summer Festivals, Juan Dominguez staged crazy TV-series-art scavenger hunts called CLEAN ROOM (Season 1 & Season 2) with and for the audience – and secured himself a spot in the history of performance art with his reputation as an unpredictably charming conceptual artist. In 2017, the Spanish dancer and choreographer will make a furious return as a host of this year’s festival garden, as the Summer Festival campaign candidate and with a solo piece that is a direct response to CLEAN ROOM. His new piece is nothing less than an attempt to stop time. Dominguez invites audience-members into a performative wormhole in which he engages in dialogue with intellectual giants from twentieth-century philosophical and intellectual history and explores previously unthought-of aspects of his past and future. This charming standup performance will provide answers to questions you never dared to ask. Afterwards there will be a sweet surprise.

Evening Sheet (PDF) available for download here.