Guru (A Rotozaza Production By Ant Hampton, Joji Koyama and Isambard Khroustaliov)
17-29 August
The situation is of being told what to do every moment of the day, for years on end. The voice in your headphones has understood who you are, and gives instructions for exactly what you'd be doing anyway.
Five participants are led by a sixth, on-screen, animated character whose twin roles of marketing and spiritual Guru are confused by his reliance on untested and accident-prone technologies. The overproduced, digital sheen of our focus-group world cracks open into a colourful volcano of boiling absurdity. A hilarious chaos develops, exposing today's consumer-mad inability to distinguish between what we want, and what we need.
Commissioned by Fusebox Festival, Austin, Texas
Part of the British Council Edinburgh Showcase 2009
