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The Blind Alley of the Documentary Theater: Situation Rooms as an Organizational Performance

Summary/Abstract: Here the author reveals the behind-the-scenes processes in creating the Situation Rooms project (Ruhrtriennale 2013, Jahrhunderthalle Bochum, premiere: 23.08.2013), in which the audience, moving from room to room, takes the roles of various characters, using iPads. Smolarska compares this project with previous work by Rimini Protokoll, exposing the shortcomings of the play and listing the artists' misled decisions in creating it. She points out significant modifications made to the real spaces during their modeling into Situation Rooms, to maintain the coherence of the artistic vision. As such, she doubts if the term "documentary" is justified with regards to Rimini's latest work.

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