Dummies

Our social life is riddled with unwritten rules. Standing in line while waiting, buying a round when it’s your birthday, saying ‘bless you’ after someone sneezes ... it all seems self-evident.

In DUMMIES, however, we see two individuals who don’t seem to have any knowledge of these predetermined rules and habits. They arrive in a lab-like space, which they turn into their own personal playground while discovering and repurposing mundane and commonplace objects. Theirs is a playful existence full of creativity and freedom. That is until a person – an object with its own free will – arrives and introduces them to a world that we’ll recognize as our own: full of unwritten rules, regulations, order and expectations.

The interplay between freedom and restriction starts and evolves into a piercing yet humorous clash of two worlds. Two worlds that, as it turns out, can learn a thing or two from each other.

DUMMIES playfully lays the absurdity of our own habits bare. The physical language of the three dummies is imposing due to the agile, acrobatic partner work and the physical risks. They give us a new and different view on what we consider to be ‘normal’.