Industrial machines eating cultural pride alive — performance art's most dangerous circus.
The 1988 European tour of Survival Research Laboratories, with shows in Amsterdam and Copenhagen. SRL ferrets out and gleefully satirizes assorted icons of cultural pride in two of Europes more allegedly libertarian democracies.
Practical Effects
Homemade death machines built in a warehouse with zero safety budget.
Direction
Reiss captures controlled demolition as gleeful political theater.
Director
Jonathan Reiss
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
SRL pioneered 'machine performance' in 1978, influencing everything from BattleBots to contemporary art's obsession with destruction-as-commentary.
Mark Pauline famously lost two fingers to an early machine; he built the replacement mechanisms himself and kept performing.
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