Expanded performance as a contribution to the exhibition 'Business op Zuid' a project curated by Egied Simons with artists working in shops and small companies at the Dordtselaan, a big-city street on the Rotterdam south bank, a street with a mixed population, with problems and beauties, a street as a never ending story.....
Since 15 years I live in this street and all the time Verhage Fast Food was there, the most friendly and multicultural snackbar I know. Every resident of the Dordtselaan has once or frequently visited this venue. Verhage saw all of them: If Verhage could tell.....
At 6 pm each day (except on Sundays) I read aloud at Verhage - for those who want to listen - a short description of a Dordtselaan resident or passer-by. Somebody I just had my eye on that day, or somebody who for some reason attracted my attention, or somebody I know and who's portrait I always wanted to make: a small daily ritual as a contemplation on a lively street.
The descriptions take only a few minutes: when you were not there, you simply missed it.