A text that deconstructs the performance’s title and involves news related to the current historical moment is the basis of the action. While reading the text, the artist screens images, creating a narrative from the news of a pest that a ects palm trees in Portugal and is spreading throughout southern Europe. “Ultimately, do we desire to make the world larger or smaller? Why are palm trees a symbol of desire? Is that why their leaves are being burned? Should we be even more savage or less savage, more or less animal? Who are the barbarians of today? Perhaps the Wall Street stockbrokers, whom Paul Krugman blames for the current economic crisis?” asks the artist in a passage from the text.”

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