All Inclusive

An equally brilliant and painful performance, a shot at our morals

While the 25th edition of the Mladi Levi festival showcased contemporary dance trends, it also shone a spotlight on socially engaged art. Perhaps the best example of this is Julian Hetzel’s show All Inclusive which deals with ethical questions of (re)presenting war traumas in art

All Inclusive offers painfully familiar scenes that make you laugh just as much as they make you frown. Hetzel exposes the often too pompous intentions of art and is critical about the thin line between engagement and exploitation, including his own.

a highlight in his already strong oeuvre

an accurate performance about the boundaries between engagement and empathy porn

All Inclusive is all about the consequence of making destruction and destructing itself into art and showing it in a museum. It is at times very confronting. But definitely worthwhile.

Hetzel rivela un’evidenza in fondo già nota: l’ambiguità tra un reale conflitto e la sua esaltazione estetica, il rapporto incerto con la violenza tra attrazione e rifiuto e la creazione di un mercato culturale che ne approfitta.

"satire abrasive"