ABOUT
"Ubu Roi" for us is evil that is indulged by people. They create it, put a crown on its head and then suffer from the aftermath.
Ubü is not a character - it's a world that exists without logic and pulls in like a funnel. That is what makes it threatening. It took a long time to find a form to represent this feeling. We have come the idea to use television as a media that has lost it's primary purpose and nowadays became a voice of propaganda. TV is an instrument and a form of visual presentation.
The performance starts at the moment of an audience member sitting on a couch, looks at a TV program and takes the TV console. The audience can freely switch through the channels. On each channel there is a different program that reveals the world of Ubu. The audience can choose what to watch and for how long.The freedom of choice is very important for us, it gives hope for a change, though the content of the channels has the same meanings.
Ubü is not a character - it's a world that exists without logic and pulls in like a funnel. That is what makes it threatening. It took a long time to find a form to represent this feeling. We have come the idea to use television as a media that has lost it's primary purpose and nowadays became a voice of propaganda. TV is an instrument and a form of visual presentation.
The performance starts at the moment of an audience member sitting on a couch, looks at a TV program and takes the TV console. The audience can freely switch through the channels. On each channel there is a different program that reveals the world of Ubu. The audience can choose what to watch and for how long.The freedom of choice is very important for us, it gives hope for a change, though the content of the channels has the same meanings.
The bright and colourful videos drag in to a parallel reality, where you start to believe in a talking turnip and learn how to make "le pistolet à phynances". The choice to watch or to leave is left for the watcher. Anyone can choose how long they want to be in the "Ubu reality".
All the video content was hand made and is based on the text of Alfred Jarry, following his characters and the material world of the play. After a long period of analysing various translations of the text, we have created fantasy elements of decorative art to the Ubu world: murals based on the plot, sculptures found in "the cellars of the polish kings", mosaics. These objects became the participants of the TV shows. Some as props, some as revived characters. Inside the TV we have created a original world of Ubu that has news reports, culinary shows, music battles and historical films to create an independent parallel reality. We would like to present to you our UBU TV.
