Joost Nieuwenburg

still from 16mm film

I found a sewer which takes all the city-dirt into a river. At night I crawled 30 meter stream-upwards through the dirt. Afterwards I cleaned myself in the same river.

In a miniature telegraph line wires are glowing according to the morse-alphabeth. For each wire a text was prepared. One addresses a question about distance, state of mind and time. The other gives a possible answer to that question. The audience is invited to transscribe the messages.

The notion of time and table-conventions is tested in an enviroment that looks at first sight as a normal diningroom. Hidden inside the table and under the floor a system of pipes is connected to the plates. From behind a wall the plates are constantly filled with soup. The idea of not finnishing their meal is to most guests uncomfortable.