Pissed

How do you know when you have to do it? When you get the urge, of course. Then you have only two options: either you suppress it or you do it. Control or surrender. Suppress or let go? You can suppress it for various reasons – because you’re waiting for the right moment, because you don’t dare, because you simply don’t know where to go, because the tension feeds you, because you don’t have time, because… you always find some (non)sensical reason.

When you have to do it, time is also pressing. In this small window of time between the feeling of urgency and actual release, a whole little life can happen. Expectation. Doubt. Panic. Fear. Desire. Need. Pleasure.

When you have to do it, the pressure becomes unbearable, you lose control of your body, the window of freedom closes, and an uncontrolled torrent floods everything in front of you. The victims of the flood are collateral damage. The only thing that matters then is that you gave it your all, that you pissed, and that you returned to a carefree life.

In the performance, Minca and Barbara question the various forms of urgency, its causes and consequences. They seek the tension between restraint and outburst in everyday situations, and repeatedly find that there are countless reasons why we are pissed.