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PASSAGE

People passing through the geometrical constrains of an urban environment create shapes and patterns which can only be seen from afar.This work observes and explores the movement of people through a three-directional ‘funnel’, in the ‘Haagse’ shopping lane - ‘Passage’.

Such movement is affected by the specific shape of the environment, its entrances and exits, the presence of other people, temporary attractions and obstacles and so on. The characteristics of the different movements are emphasized by visually isolating certain groups and individuals from such environmental elements, and following their trajectories, which vary from linear and functional to complex and seemingly stochastic.

These ‘natural’ occurrences are then confronted by a group of 4 actors which moves in a directed and coordinated way in order to interact with the spontaneous movement and manipulate the properties of the environment. The work becomes a ‘puppet show’ in which the participants, both wittingly and unwittingly engage in the exchanges between spontaneous movement and a directed one and between group patterns and an individual trajectory.