Stavanger, Norway
Siri Borge may be some kind of goddess from our dystopian future, where sharp-toothed fish-truck hybrids zoom around a morally and ecologically bankrupt planet, and people buy and sell each other online based on fictional biographies that play painfully to the basest stereotypes. Actually, maybe that horrible future is now. Certainly Borge is—of the now, not the horrible—a role she embraces fiercely and funnily, in performances and sculptural accessories alike. Maritime politics are tackled in the cleverly titled “Codspeed,” in which Borge, kitted out in a cod headpiece and mittens, races a remote-controlled mini monster truck, made by wiring a dessicated cod fish head to a toy car base. The nightclub performance “Tinderella,” a witty mash-up of Tinder and Cinderella, finds her mocking online dating strategies in the belly of the beast. If all this seems absurd, it certainly is, but so is 2026.
—Lori Waxman, March 17, 5:34 PM