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 Gallery view: Scott Hove. “Break Bread,” (2016). Courtesy Think Tank Gallery.  Gallery view: Scott Hove. “Break Bread,” (2016). Courtesy Think Tank Gallery.  Gallery view: Scott Hove. “Break Bread,” (2016). Courtesy Think Tank Gallery.  Gallery view: Scott Hove. “Break Bread,” (2016). Courtesy Think Tank Gallery.  Gallery view: Scott Hove. “Break Bread,” (2016). Courtesy Think Tank Gallery.  Gallery view: Scott Hove. “Break Bread,” (2016). Courtesy Think Tank Gallery.  Gallery view: Scott Hove. “Break Bread,” (2016). Courtesy Think Tank Gallery.  Gallery view: Scott Hove. “Break Bread,” (2016). Courtesy Think Tank Gallery.  Gallery view: Scott Hove. “Break Bread,” (2016). Courtesy Think Tank Gallery.  Gallery view: Scott Hove. “Break Bread,” (2016). Courtesy Think Tank Gallery.  Gallery view: Scott Hove. “Break Bread,” (2016). Courtesy Think Tank Gallery.  Gallery view: Scott Hove. “Break Bread,” (2016). Courtesy Think Tank Gallery.  Gallery view: Scott Hove. “Break Bread,” (2016). Courtesy Think Tank Gallery.  Gallery view: Scott Hove. “Break Bread,” (2016). Courtesy Think Tank Gallery. [](#)[](#) “The Worst Of The Murge” x “Break Bread” @ Think Tank Gallery, L.A. Photographer Travis Waddell captures a performance staged within a collaborative installation by artist Scott Hove. Wet The Hippo could be [L.A.'s most bizarre improv troupe](http://www.laweekly.com/arts/this-could-be-las-craziest-improv-show-5914440), so it makes perfect sense that you'd find them performing their show "The Murge" within Scott Hove's elaborate 6-room cake maze. [](http://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c346b607eaa09d9189a870/1487292460133-UFC2HSDVUYXWJMBI6CVJ/2016.2.19.ThinkTank0003.jpg.19.ThinkTank0003.jpg?format=original) "People have a lot of positive associations with cake. It appeals to a very primitive part of our brain," [Hove told the](http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/la-et-cm-cake-castle-think-tank-gallery20160212-story.html) _[Times](http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/la-et-cm-cake-castle-think-tank-gallery20160212-story.html)._ [](http://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c346b607eaa09d9189a870/1487292460172-77THSIBHCYN03GZE0E0W/2016.2.19.ThinkTank0008.jpg.19.ThinkTank0008.jpg?format=original) Led by ex-Cirque Du Soleil clown John Gilkey, Wet The Hippo improv inverts precisely this kind of primitive thinking, aiming for a comedy that is so far past stupid, that it becomes nonsensically compelling. [](http://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c346b607eaa09d9189a870/1487292460512-6B83BSTJDSW4PHA07KD8/2016.2.19.ThinkTank0018.jpg.19.ThinkTank0018.jpg?format=original) About the cake-themed installation, Hove said, _"_I’m interested in extreme decadence, sort of the fall of Rome decadence, decadence that happens at the cost of everything else.” [](http://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c346b607eaa09d9189a870/1487292460655-LKIPL9JO9L0B7P3WCW7P/2016.2.19.ThinkTank0020.jpg.19.ThinkTank0020.jpg?format=original) Hove booked numerous performances within his multi-room installation, [many food-themed](http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/la-et-cm-cake-castle-think-tank-gallery20160212-story.html). [](http://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c346b607eaa09d9189a870/1487292460753-J66IRBZJU4EM7LEH8P8R/2016.2.19.ThinkTank0022.jpg.19.ThinkTank0022.jpg?format=original) Maybe it's synchronicity, but in past Murge shows, I have witnessed false teeth swapped between performers' mouths. I've seen spitting, gagging, vomiting. In short, I've seen an oblique presentation of exactly this kind of Roman "over-indulgence." Is there nothing more decadent than a ruler who gorges, and then vomits, so that he may gorge some more? [](http://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c346b607eaa09d9189a870/1487292463015-TJIG5D01UG7632QIW65F/2016.2.19.ThinkTank0030.jpg.19.ThinkTank0030.jpg?format=original) [](http://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c346b607eaa09d9189a870/1487292463772-MMPPB74ACMBL7PIRH9IP/2016.2.19.ThinkTank0032.jpg.19.ThinkTank0032.jpg?format=original) [](http://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c346b607eaa09d9189a870/1487292464182-FYE2B88N29HNLI2A3AFD/2016.2.19.ThinkTank0034.jpg.19.ThinkTank0034.jpg?format=original) [](http://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c346b607eaa09d9189a870/1487292464764-8O0UY7ESXRNFVUEAUO4J/2016.2.19.ThinkTank0035.jpg.19.ThinkTank0035.jpg?format=original) [](http://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c346b607eaa09d9189a870/1487292465263-1JN6DXBMTOI8AP8FCC0H/2016.2.19.ThinkTank0036.jpg.19.ThinkTank0036.jpg?format=original) [](http://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c346b607eaa09d9189a870/1487292467067-KMWBT19JTG2KF5VVUESP/2016.2.19.ThinkTank0037.jpg.19.ThinkTank0037.jpg?format=original) [](http://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c346b607eaa09d9189a870/1487292467519-VH9VP0MVCVDSOM1MACON/2016.2.19.ThinkTank0038.jpg.19.ThinkTank0038.jpg?format=original) [](http://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c346b607eaa09d9189a870/1487292468038-EBFJ6XZIAUXERFV8AYBO/2016.2.19.ThinkTank0039.jpg.19.ThinkTank0039.jpg?format=original) _"Break Bread" is open from 11 a.m.-5 p.m. daily at [Think Tank Gallery](http://www.thinktankgallery.org/) (except Wednesdays), through March 13. For more ticketed events, [head over here](www.breakbreadla.com)._