BOX [2005]

LAKE NEAR STRAUSSBERG WITHED SHORE RAIL
Of flat-headed Argonauts
Common reed-plumes dead branches
THIS TREE WILL NOT GROW UPON ME Fish corpses
Shining in the shit Biscuit-Boxes Piles of shit FROMMS ACT CASINO
Teared-up sanitary towel the blood
Of the women of Kolchis

Heiner Müller: "Withed shore"

Box is an installation: a glass cube contains the strongest possible light source that can be concentrated on such a small surface; the project was developed in collaboration with engineers of Philips Lightning (Turnhout). The spectators, equipped with protective, dark glasses, are led into the room. As they watch the light, they hear the voice of the actor Johan Leysen who speaks, in German, the apocalyptic texts by Heiner Müller Verkommenes Ufer and Landschaft mit Argonauten. The light that normally allows us to see, here blinds us. It could be the light flash of a nuclear explosion, a never ceasing, eye-burning lightning that announces the end of the world.