Initiation, an experiment
In order to reach enlightenment it seems you need to be initiated and therefor I choose the longest day of the year, A very special midsummernight, for during this solstice there was also a full moon. Coincidentally a full moon Is The ritual day in India and summer-solstice has been celebrated throughout the history of time. The longest day of the year, with a full moon exactly happens only in a moon-cycle, maybe every 28 years.(picture that !) The Most enlightened day was a perfect reason to gather the sect and initiate, The perfect day for light thrown on the shadow no more place to hide for everyday after would be losing light, gaining shadow. If you can say this time of the year is Ying or White, I could say that the huge dark space under the round table was the dot of Yang the black dot from where to observe the visible.

Leave your Clothes Behind
The process was clearly visible in the animation. A radio connection all at the same wavelength would escort but to get to that point I have to say that a lot of things had happened. Guiding the peoples outside and get them to imagine the initiation by themselves, just pointing out what could have happened or was happening right now In Ruigoord or Stonehenge as well as in other continents today, traditional customs, fire, fortunetelling...

But leaving the audience to their own imagination by wandering around with an almost silent radio was nearly the Non Event Peter Sloterdijk had been talking about? Holland Festival, Oerol festival, DasArts festival, everywhere festival on this day is not only delicious rich culture but is also overfeeding us. Maybe audience expected to get initiated. At the slightest suggestion of leaving their clothes behind in a small pond of reflections. The actual Full moon was invisible for the first part behind a veil on the horizon, but with my audience (far more a group and obeying as I had ever expected them to be) climbed in mass the heavy concrete steps on the slope.

De VerHef -Truck
At the end of the slope you would meet the possibility for Verheffing an Oplicht-truck. 2 by 2 peoples could get lifted 17 meters above the harbor reaching out for the latest sunlight and the early moon, leaving the ego behind. Leaving the longest day of the year, no more further growing of ideals. No more light shed on our day. No more Walking on toes and ascending hopes for More More and Higher once more, Higher and than be dropped down.

This lifting the audience was an experience in space, up between sun and moon between sunset and concrete. Unfortunately after lifting 1/5 Th of the audience the machine ran out of GAZ, truly rehearsal had been done despite the heatwave over the city those days, but an endurance check was another chapter yet.

Missed Opportunity
For I have tried to arrange a Stunt mat, a huge inflatable used by firepolice and film-sets to fall down from a great height. My initial wish to initiate was the famous JUMP not only philosophical as Peter Sloterdijk describes, but also found in "Carlos Castaneda's teachings", dreams, new sect tests ( like the popular Landmark), and many other initiation rituals. Joop van de Ende and a famous Stunt bedrijf...., to fire department I tried to excise my charms but I don't know whether it is the midlife crisis stroking again or just the expenses. 2000 Euro for the day + a safety guard was far beyond budget so I had to switch from jumping to lifting.

At the NDSM are 4 machines like those, and I might just turn on the music and ask for choreography in the sky. One of those days I might be bored in my atelier, after finishing this report.