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.
Part of the official jury selection of the Dutch Theater Festival 2021.
Premiere: October 8th 2020, Festival Actoral – La Criée Marseille, FR
With the support of: Fonds Podiumkunsten NL, Fonds21, Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, The Kickstart Cultuurfonds, Flemish Community & City of Ghent
“With this piece, Hetzel adds another exciting, ambiguous work to his oeuvre.” – ★★★★☆ – NRC Handelsblad
“The installatie Mount Average calls for reflection.” ★★★★☆ – De Volkskrant
“This project also aims to stimulate the process of transformation, the process of looking how a negative resource or trauma can be used in a pro-active way. It kinds of provide a new perspective or at least something for the present to work with.” – KLAP