Two Minutes to Midnight

What if women ruled the world Yael Bartana stages the question in practice in her performative Two Minutes to Midnight where a female government in a fictitious country must take a stand on an imminent nuclear threat from a foreign nation led by the selfabsorbed president Twittler A panel of fictional characters and real female experts from areas such as defence law politics and psychology are tasked with agreeing on how to approach the situation in Bartanas role play which takes place in a democratic Peace Room mirroring the toxically masculine War Room in Stanley Kubricks classic Cold War satire Dr Strangelove In the meantime the clock is ticking but when the red phone rings you can almost hear your own heartbeat