The Duke University Center for International Studies is pleased to announce its newest Franklin Center Gallery exhibition: The Kipper Kids: A Slap in the Face, on display through January 9, 2009.
The Kipper Kids: A Slap in the Face
A Slap in the Face documents the Kipper Kids, an experimental performance duo created by Martin von Haselberg and Brian Routh at the East 15 Drama School, where they met in 1970. Performing as the Kids through the early 1980s, Routh and von Haselberg created elaborate but purposely low-tech installations in which they would perform “ceremonies” using mostly found objects. Counting Japanese rituals, English Music Hall, Viennese Actionism, and the works of Samuel Becket among their influences, their performances in the U.S. and Europe were largely unscripted, bawdy and oft-times violent.
The exhibition, curated by Diego Cortez, is open to the public, daily, in the Franklin Center Gallery, between 9am and 5pm, though Friday, January 9, 2009.
