PISS POOL - Boogaerdt/VanderSchoot

"PISS POOL" (named after the eponymous work by artist Samantha Nye) explores the phenomenon of ageism from a feminist perspective. In Boogaerdt/VanderSchoot's characteristic hybrid of digital avatars and living bodies, this theatrical video installation examines the toxic underbelly of capitalist wellness culture, where the female body is expected to be young, fit, and toned, and where self-care means not caring for each other, but making everyone responsible for their own (un)health.

PISS POOL - Boogaerdt/VanderSchoot

Dates

Wed 14 Jan20:30 - 22:00

Thu 15 Jan20:30 - 22:00

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Location

Frascati, Nes 63, 1012 KD Amsterdam

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You look good for your age

An innocent compliment? Or a toxic undercurrent of a capitalist society where youth, fitness, and fertility are the only desirable traits? Or how the norm assumes you peak around thirty, after which your productivity, health, and social relevance decline?

In PISS POOL , you enter a TikTok house for the over-sixties, a luxurious wellness center full of massage chairs, beauty corners, and sugar-free power drinks. Here, older women film themselves performing ultramodern rejuvenation rituals, led by an influencer. But in this hall of mirrors where time warps, it turns out no one truly owns their body.

BIMBO

With this new performance, Boogaerdt/VanderSchoot builds on their 2011 theatre hit BIMBO , which featured the pornified and objectified female body. Together with theatre maker and visual artist Lisa Schamlé, Boogaerdt/VanderSchoot develops a cutting-edge wellness world where the concept of (life)time is transformed into a space where women, naked or clothed, take back time.

Dates and times

Wednesday 14 January	20:30 - 22:00
Thursday 15 January	20:30 - 22:00