Add to playlistThe Dust Channel is a cultural exquisite corpse: an operetta with a libretto in Russian about a British home appliance set in an Israeli reality of private perversion and socio-political phobias. The libretto tries to animate a DC07 Vacuum Cleaner by telling it about itself and the history of its maker, James Dyson. The machine itself is in the center of a household brimming with desires centered on notions of dirt and cleanliness. The fear of dirt, dust and people invading the private home leads to the reality of a detention facility for refugees set in the desert.
