From 21 November, Boogaerdt/VanderSchoot will be touring the country with PISS POOL. For this provocative theatre experience, visual artist Lisa Schamlé collaborated with the artist duo to develop a wellness centre where older women, naked or clothed, take (back) time.
‘You look good for your age.’ An innocent compliment? Or a toxic undercurrent of a capitalist society in which young, fit and fertile are the only desirable forms? Or how the norm assumes that you reach your peak around the age of thirty and that after that your productivity, health and social relevance decline?
In PISS POOL (named after the eponymous work by artist Samantha Nye), you enter a TikTok house for people over sixty, a seemingly luxurious wellness centre full of massage chairs, beauty corners and sugar-free power drinks. Here, older women film themselves during hypermodern rejuvenation rituals, led by an influencer. But in this hall of mirrors where time is distorted, it turns out that no one really owns their body.
PISS POOL explores the phenomenon of ageism from a feminist perspective. In Boogaerdt/VanderSchoot‘s characteristic hybrid form of digital avatars and living bodies, this theatrical video installation examines the toxic underbelly of capitalist wellness culture, in which the female body must be young, fit and toned, and in which self-care means that we do not care for each other, but everyone is responsible for their own (un)health.
With this new performance, the artist duo builds on their theatre hit BIMBO (2011), in which the pornographic and objectified female body played the leading role. Together with theatre maker and visual artist Lisa Schamlé (1989), Boogaerdt/VanderSchoot developed an alienating wellness world in which the concept of (life) time is transformed into a space where women+, naked or clothed, take (back) time. Lisa’s focus on visual culture closely aligns with the theme and multidisciplinary approach of PISS POOL.
About Lisa Schamlé
Lisa Schamlé, who graduated from the Institute of Performative Arts in Maastricht in 2015, is an Amsterdam-based visual artist, theatre maker/performer and former member of the performance collective La Isla Bonita. She creates theatrical installations in which photography, visual art and performance come together in a fluid way, and in which the audience moves freely through the space. In this way, she blurs the boundaries between theatre and visual art.
Her work focuses on themes such as female sexuality, the politics of desire, body horror, representation and the nuanced nature of disgust. She often uses her own body as a subject of research. She works with themes such as the female gaze and creates portraits of herself to reclaim the narrative of the objectified woman.
In Me, A Depiction (2024), she explored the way we look at (female) bodies and how that gaze shapes our self-image. Inspired by thinkers such as Amia Srinivasan and Agnès Varda, she reverses the gaze: instead of being looked at, she looks herself — at the other and at herself. By observing her body without judgement, she turns looking into an activist gesture that invites a different way of perceiving. This work won her the IDFA Immersive Non-Fiction Award.
In 2022, Lisa created the work My Toe (uncensored), in which she created an OnlyFans account for her big toe. The work shows the inevitable sexualisation of the female body and raises the question of whether there is any part of the body that cannot be objectified.
In 2023, she created Formula Cum, a utopian work that focuses on female desire. In it, Lisa depicts a world in which women reclaim their own arousal and erotic power — no longer as objects, but as active forces that connect everything with their cervical mucus.
PISS POOL
21 November 2025 – 25 January, 2026
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