16:00 – 22:00 (20, 21 & 22 May)
After ‘WORK WORK WORK’ (2024), Dries Verhoeven returns to the Amsterdam Art Week with a performative installation.
‘Everything Must Go’ explores the moral frictions of late capitalism. In a replica of an Albert Heijn supermarket aisle, a performer gives voice to the paradoxical thoughts of contemporary shoplifters: a “stream of consciousness” based on 24 interviews with people who occasionally ‘forget’ to pay, in which activism and consumerism become entangled. The supermarket is revealed as the epicenter of opportunism in a disillusioned society. Why be virtuous when the world is falling apart?
Visitors remain outside the installation; they peek into the aisle through the products on the shelves or observe the performer via CCTV footage, like surveillants in a present-day panopticon. The work is shown six hours a day. You buy a ticket for a starting time, but you can stay as long as you like.
A rock-solid new theatrical installation… The monologue lies somewhere between a confession and an accusation, placing the viewer in the complex dual role of understanding confessor and stern overseer. (Dana Linssen – NRC)
