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Mutter (2015) Teylers Museum, Haarlem (NL) Performance intervention Based on a set of fossils found in the permanent collection of the Teylers Museum, Mutter is an anti-play, written and performed as a phone conversation which interrupted a public event in the main hall of the museum. While audience members unexpectedly eavesdropped on a private call between a man and his mother, his story behind the collection of fabricated fossils was revealed. The story of Johan Beringer and his lugensteine or “lying stones” is one of history’s earlier examples of fake news. In exploring his original thesis in the archives of the museum, I fabricated my own version of the lugensteine encrypted with the word “mutter”. This stone was placed in the vitrine next to the original stones for the exhibition Historical Materialisms. Special thanks to Jakob Ehrlich, Clare Butcher, Jasper Coppes, Yvonne Dröge Wendel and the Rietveld Academy, Herman Voogd and Ewout Koek of the Teylers Museum.
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