The Handke Project. Or, justice for Peter’s stupidities

Where does the freedom of art end and the need to be politically correct in artistic creation begin? Can we make art without being insensitive? The Handke Project brings together six actors from Kosovo, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Italy and Germany to address, with the right distance, indeed with the appropriate dose of irony, the controversial figure of Peter Handke, writer and poet, Nobel Prize for literature in 2019, as well as Milošević’s supporter and denier of the crimes committed in former Yugoslavia during the 1990s. Is it then possible to separate the work from the artist? The question is hotly debated. In the meantime, Handke and the European Handkists continue to roam freely, even over the eight thousand graves of the victims of Srebrenica. Perhaps because, Eric Gordy says, Handke is kitsch! But also a Nobel prize for him is kitsch. Handke’s supporters are also kitsch. After all, European hypocrisy is itself kitsch.

Italian premiere 

Show in English with Italian surtitles