November 2022 Residency Toon Fibbe

Open Doors Friday 17 December 2022

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Toon Fibbe

Conversing and intersecting physical and ethereal realities, Toon Fibbe investigated the relationships between financial speculation, meteorological forces and visual seduction. He has adapted The Magic Lantern, a 1720 play by Denis Carolet, into an animatronic operetta responding to the first large-scale stock market crash.

Toon presented fragments of scenes and a mise-en- scene from the animatronic operetta tentatively called ‘HOT AIR, or the devil dressed in paper’. It is based on a 1720 play by Denis Carole that responds to the first large scale stockmarket crash. At the time of writing ‘windtrade’ or ’trading in wind’ - became a common way to refer to the then shockingly new immateriality of stock market trading. 

In the play the windgod Eolus is therefore invoked as a personification of this new, speculative commerce and declares: “My goal is to create phenomena, airs, winds fogs; I will give rain the consistency of gold! (...) with optical illusions I will make people see the most surprising things that perspective allows.”