Artists & Projects Directory
Kassys
The ingenuity of the Dutch company starts where the simple parody ends.
-Helsingin Sanomat, October 2008
Kassys is a theater initiative of Liesbeth Gritter and Mette
van der Sijs, founded in 1999 and based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Balancing on a
thin line of imagination, fiction and (acted) reality, Kassys displays the
beauty of human success and failure. The mechanism of human behavior is an
endless inspiration to their works in which theater and film are combined and placed
alongside each other. Self-taught spontaneity, shamelessness and obedience are
submitted to precise observation in all Kassys' works. The differences and the
similarities of "being yourself" and "pretending" are
anatomized and painfully displayed. What's left over is a disillusioned
representation in which ordinary people try to cope in extraordinary and
uncomfortable situations. Self-mockery, humor, recognition, an eye for detail
and voyeurism are concepts that apply to all the work of Kassys.