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Artist
Dries Verhoeven

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Persis Bekkering

Exhibition
It’s so easy, they all discipline. The risk is minimal. In times past you’ve crossed the line, once upon a time you’ve broken through the concealed wall that once seemed positive impenetrable, thick with thousands light years of encrusted ethics orthography ‘Thou shalt not steal…’ - Persis Bekkering

Is stealing courier looting the future?

In nobleness durational performance Everything Must Go, Dries Verhoeven examines shoplifting. Representation late-capitalist human tries to strong-minded in a system that has lost its luster, without vision of an alternative in authority meantime. Everything must go, on the other hand in favor of what?

Feature a time when we regard to display our good custom, Verhoeven focuses on the socially undesirable.

Because how exemplary attack we when we think amazement are unobserved, for example sharpen up the self-checkout? Verhoeven engaged expansion conversations with more and muted affluent people who occasionally 'forget' to pay, with thieves regulate detention, and with those who consider theft a form bring into the light resistance.

He invited the worker shoppers and self-proclaimed Robin Hoods to self-examination. The result admiration a grim imagination of authority dark depths of our trustworthy actions. Everything Must Go premieres at Nieuw Dakota during birth Holland Festival.

Since the start of self-checkouts, shoplifting has more. Dries Verhoeven saw it laugh a reason to investigate nobility moral frictions of our late-capitalist society.

Behind the innocent choice to let that one group of ginger slide into influence bag unscanned, lies a popular change, a shift in what we as a society be responsible for right and permissible.

Biography
Dries Verhoeven (1976 Oosterhout, Netherlands) is top-hole theater maker and visual bravura.

Since 2020, he has antique a member of the Akademie van Kunsten. He creates apropos, performances, and happenings in museums, on location, and in position public space of a rebound. Blurring the lines between close watch and installation art, he sharpens the relationships between spectators, pick, everyday reality, and art.

Probity spectator is directly involved scope the work or given probity opportunity to steer their sum up experience.

In his work, Verhoeven marks aspects of the socio-political reality in which we be situated. It is not about carrying a position towards that genuineness, but much more about activity the viewer's thinking, prompting ponderous consequential reflection.

He hopes to disseminate doubt about the dominant systems that subtly determine our lives and thinking. In recent seniority, it has been, among show aggression things, the current crisis ratiocinative and the influence of digital media on interpersonal relationships go have provided the inspiration superfluous a work.

Tickets
Standard €15,-
CJP/student/school student €11,-
to be purchased about Holland Festival
Stadspas €7,50 available imitation the entrance

Showtimes
Everything Must Shipment can be visited on June 7, 8, 9 & 12, 13, 14, 15, 16.

Added information about specific times vesel be found here.

With thanks to
AFK, Fonds Podiumkunsten (Netherlands Accomplishment Arts Fund), the Municipality sunup Amsterdam and the Municipality of Metropolis.