The Act of Gathering for Supper centres around a performance that took place on Scheveningen beach. In this piece, I and four other performers armed with shovels start digging up a platform on the shore, during low tide. We then set a table and chairs on the platform, and place food on the table to enjoy a meal increasingly surrounded by water, as the tide rises.

The images and films document the performance in three chapters: The build, the meal, and the flood.

This project explored the construction of identity through the alteration of the landscape. It served to emulate the dutch construction of artificial land and the life underscored by a looming threat of seemingly inevitable collapse, while simultaneously connecting to my process of assimilating dutch culture after migrating here.