Wake 1
Situation:
Above the middle line of 21-meters long space of Stichting Ennu, above man's height, I have stretched a nylon-thread, with small pieces of paper attached to it, which at one side are hanging close together and which, according to a gradual series, have distance between them becoming bigger and bigger (from 2 centimeters till 12 meters). The small pieces of paper are numbered from 1 till 30 and mark the distances which have to be covered every minute.
Performance:
I am at the one end of the room, bare-footed, situated thus that number one can be seen right above me. I'm dressed in white, carrying a sowing-box filled with white flour. In my left hand I have a digital-clock and behind me, against the wall, there is a metronome marking the seconds.
When the clock has started, I take handful of flour during the first two seconds and during the third and fourth second I sow it to the right and left as far away as possible. This action is repeated until the end, during 30 minutes. At the same time I move to the next piece of paper, by “dragging” myself forward by means of my toes. As the mutual distances per minute grow bigger, the shifting becomes walking with very small steps. Because the flour is spread over a larger distance per minute, a white path develops, from covering till transparent, with a dark line in the middle marking the movement of my feet.
| year | 1984 |
| location | Stichting Ennu Tilburg NL |
| photography | Henk Geraedts |