Dachshunds for World Peace
Bennett Miller’s Dachshund U.N. is both a large-scale architectural installation and a performance work that examines the role of the United Nations as a risk management organisation. A four level amphitheatre installed on MCA Square this weekend, 2 and 3 June 2012, plays host to a meeting of the U.N.’s
Human Rights Council, wherein all 47 of the national delegates are live dachshunds. Dachshund U.N. is both a joyful and chaotic experiment, and a meditation on the utopian aspirations of the United Nations, and our capacity as humans to imagine and achieve a universal system of justice. Audiences are invited to exclusive live viewings of the operations of the Dachshund U.N. , where the specially recruited dachshunds engage in rigorous debate.