Wiener Dogs Take Over The UN
Who knows, maybe this could be better than the real United Nations.
Dachshund UN: Performance art is going to the dogs
Dashshund UN, an art instalment currently being staged by Toronto’s Harbourfront Centre’s World Stage festival, has critics’ and audiences’ tails wagging.
A dachshund is petted by its owner before the start of a performance installation “Dachshund UN”, where dogs were used to mimic a United Nations Commission on Human Rights meeting in Toronto
The 50-minute show, developed by Australian artist Bennett Miller, involves 36 dachshunds reenacting a meeting of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights.
“It gets the audience to consider human behaviour differently,” Miller told CBC News.
“Shock, delight, cacophony! A meeting of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights is staged with the help of specially recruited dachshunds in this wild performance installation. Joyful and chaotic, spectacular and fascinating, Dachshund UN questions our capacity to imagine and achieve a universal system of justice,” Harbourfront Centre’s website states.
“It’s a simple concept. Some choral music with a martial tone and then the curtain rises on four tiers of dogs — apparently a replica of the UN office in Geneva — and then the audience watches the dogs, talks loudly and snaps photos throughout, and the dogs stare back, mostly in bafflement,” Toronto Star entertainment reporter Bruce DeMara writes.
How cute :)
