Access All Areas is a performance created around a queue leading to an emergency exit, where the anticipation of an event is accompanied by a growing sense of self-consciousness. The queue itself becomes a performative moment, and the act of waiting in expectation becomes the central theme of the work. 
By involving the audience as active participants, a subtle form of interaction is created - one that encourages reflection without beineg intrusiv.

A young person is peeling an orange. After a brief wait, I enter the room and breathe a different air. He told us - me and a bunch of others - that we would be escorted to another location, but this wasn’t true. The makeshift room is a vista of evaporated thoughts, a stable of vanished horses. We stand around in silence. There’s a person who has managed to not give up their cellphone when asked by the young man, and they are constantly at it, texting and vaping, blowing clouds of glycerin smoke into the somewhat confined air. The other person we’re with is pretty nervous; they keep looking out of the curtain with the anticipation of someone about to go on stage for the very first time. I realize: we are the performers, and what we do in this space defines us.  







as part of And other possible scenariosgroup show
Het HEM, Zaandam, NL
2021



with 
Marcus Absi
Lama Aloul
Juan Felipe Amaya Gonzalez
Reyer van Barneveld
Emma Bombail
Sancha Castro
Marta Gawron
Vasilisa Ikryannikova
Thalia Livingstone
Diron Sterk






















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