The Week Before
by Tom Oliver Jacobson
The Week Before is a durational performance unfolding within a temporary living room, where a single character reenacts the last week of their lives before entering an elusive clinic—a sanatorium for those lost in the noise of a fragmented world. Through everyday gestures, the character relies on their memory as they attempt to hold onto reality as it dissolves. The work explores the unsettling qualities of the ordinary life, the erosion of sanity, and the way repetition both preserves and dismantles memoryThe audience witnesses the repetition of mundane actions, which, repeated over time, become unstable and distorted as they slip between memory and fiction. Through these loops, The Week Before explores the tension between remembering and imagining, and the strange beauty found in the disintegration of the familiar, and how the search for meaning moves between healing, loss and fantasy.
Zeedijk 128, Amsterdam
3-9 March 2025
daily between 18-21
As part of The Living Room series, Trespassing
Part of a larger research of the work Do We Dream Under the Same Sky?