A hybrid performance between dance, theater, and film, »Kammer/Kammer« stages an elaborate erotic economy of disjunctive doublings. The piece juxtaposes two homosexual love stories – a young man bemoaning the frustrations and inequalities of his relationship with his rock star lover, and Catherine Deneuve as a university professor entangling herself in romantic fantasies about a girl in her class – adapted from the novel Outline of My Lover by Douglas A. Martin and the essay Irony is Not Enough: Essay on My Life as Catherine Deneuve (2nd draft) by award-winning poet and scholar, Anne Carson. In essence, »Kammer/Kammer« is a live recording of a film that at once disables the viewer’s access to the substantive events of the performance while simultaneously constructing the appearance of an even more intimate relationship to the live than the bare stage would offer. The performed action is often perceived in interstitial glimpses as it occurs behind continually shifting walls and is mediated through highly-choreographed camera movement, unusual frame compositions, and real-time editing of video sequences dispersed throughout the space on vibrant wide flat-screen video monitors. The technological spectacularity is countered by the ultra-low tech materiality of bare mattresses upon which dancing bodies confront one another in swift and complex kinetic disfigurations. The radical multiplicity of dislocated space and movement in »Kammer/Kammer« nonetheless attains a powerful coherence in the minds of the spectators.
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