Arne Hendriks is onderzoeker, kunstenaar en kunsthistoricus. Sinds 2007 onderzoekt hij The incredible shrinking man. De belofte van de kleine mens. Want krimp levert ruimte op. In huis, in de boodschappentas, in de stad en op de planeet. Na een leven van residenties hebben Club Gewalt en Johan Idema hem het theater in gelokt. We praten erover met hem. We? Ja, want Tom Helmer heeft een co-host: Ilse Bijlstra heet ze. Ze loopt nu nog stage, maar zij wordt een hele grote.
kaarten en info: www.theaterbellevue.nl/theincredibleshrinkingman
onze podcastaflevering met Club Gewalt: https://tinyurl.com/2nbc9c7s
Interview: Tom Helmer en Ilse Bijlstra
Montage: Tom Helmer en Ilse Bijlstra
Muziek: The Infinitesemal van Club Gewalt.
Liedtekst The Infinitesemal
“I was continuing to shrink, to become… What? The infinitesimal? What was I? Still a human being? Or was I the man of the future? If there were other bursts of radiation, other clouds drifting across seas and continents, would other beings follow me into this vast new world? So close, the infinitesimal and the infinite. But suddenly I knew they were really the two ends of the same concept. The unbelievably small and the unbelievably vast eventually meet, like the closing of a gigantic circle. I looked up, as if somehow I would grasp the heavens, the universe, worlds beyond number. God’s silver tapestry spread across the night. And in that moment I knew the answer to the riddle of the infinite. I had thought in terms of Man’s own limited dimension. I had presumed upon Nature. That existence begins and ends is Man’s conception, not Nature’s. And I felt my body dwindling, melting, becoming nothing. My fears melted away and in their place came acceptance. All this vast majesty of creation, it had to mean something. And then I meant something too. Yes, smaller than the smallest, I meant something too. To God, there is no zero.”
“I still exist.”
