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Election Mad-ness!

The Art Newspaper
1 November 2016
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Looking for a cathartic experience to counteract the maddening avalanche of election emails? The New York-based collective DETEXT, which uses online textual material as its medium, has written Campaign, a 30-minute slapstick comedy on the US presidential race, exclusively with excerpts from an abundant primary source: the mass fundraising emails sent by the campaigns of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. The one-act performance—which features characters such as the candidates, Barack Obama and “Team Trump #1”—will be staged three times this Thursday, 3 November at the Museum of Arts and Design (Mad) in New York. Cue the pleas, slogans and opponent bashing!

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