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Anne Imhof’s Vapid ‘DOOM’ Performance Has Nothing to Say

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Before she became a Golden Lion–winning artist, Anne Imhof was a bouncer, working at a club in a Frankfurt suburb that she has described as a “headquarters” for herself and her friends. The club has always haunted her work—Aqua Leo, one of her early performances, derived its name from the code words that she and the other bouncers used to communicate during their shifts. In a less obvious way, it also seems to haunt her newest work, a three-hour…

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Anne Imhof’s three-hour performance at the Park Avenue Armory in Manhattan is overwhelmingly infantile, comically apolitical, excessively pessimistic about the future, and tragically hollow beneath all the hype. Doom: House of Hope, curated by Klaus Biesenbach, is a Gen-Z adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet set on a high school prom night and performed under a giant jumbotron with a ticking doomsday clock. “We hope, we’re doomed…

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