Mount Average is about the struggle of how we deal with the past and how history carved in stone becomes a problem today.
Mount Average is a factory that works with monuments of leaders, politicians and intellectuals. From Leopold II, to Hitler or Colbert. The monuments are the “raw material” for a process of transformation. Mount Average is a highly efficient factory that produces nothing. It is about an ongoing process of creating and deconstructing. About doing and not doing. About finding and letting go. The factory sets a process in motion that revolves around becoming.
In this factory, the audience, groups of four people at a time, dispatched every 15 minutes, are led on a tour where they have different encounters in every room. The tour is guided by audio that switches between live and recorded sound, depending on the room, that is fed to a mobile receiver with headphones that the audience is given before the beginning of the tour. Some portions of the tour are hands on, while others only require listening or witnessing.
This is a collection of taxonomy terms that allow a type of immersive or XR performance to be categorised.