This performance, based on Shakespeare’s play, explores subject of power and misinformation. Above the audience’s eyes a giant Plafon (about 8 m in diameter) displays a collage of various famous paintings depicting Caesar’s assassination. The Plafon offers six different interpretations of Caesar’s assassination. The audience can select any version or accept all of them – exactly as in reality, where we are doomed to a multitude of transmissions and the impossibility of identifying this one true version.
The marble blocks consolidate into various arrangements representing different social functions: Caesar’s feast, the public forum where funeral speeches are delivered, and finally, fragmented, separate islands occupied by hostile parties. Various, often contradictory, narratives about the world clash out in front of the audience. Within an ocean of information, the veracity of which no one can be certain, those vying for power create their own world. The heroes become merely their vehicles, glitching constructs of memory, looped in some hellish rave, playing their roles. Caesar is only a fragmentary meme, a specific collective memory, having nothing to do with the imperious emperor of an invincible empire.
