Review: my home is not my home

If you’re not force feeding a banana to a semi-naked pretend Jesus, are you even at the Fringe? Berlin performance art collective Bambule Babys follow up their 2018 show, Paradise Baby with this piece “dedicated to all those homesick for a better world”. Artistic director Anna Valeska Pohl likes her art to rebel against good taste and boring art, and that anti-anodyne mission statement sounds pretty great. It’s just not enough to save this hour-long show from spiralling into repetitive, wannabe-shocking mediocrity. 

Valeska Pohl and Michael Pöpperl play two ‘trash prophets’, Jesus and Mary lookalikes with metres of long brown hair between them and genitals just dying to get some limelight. 

Once these non-judgmental prophets make the point about healing the pain of the dispossessed, and every abuse survivor, homeless addict and kid in a foster home, they just keep making the same point. Fetish harnesses, tape players and fairy lights add to the queer, DIY aesthetic but the po-faced piece doesn’t have much more to say.