The Week Before is a durational performance set in a staged living room. Behind this window, a character reenacts the last week of their life before entering a clinic designed for those who seek healing from the noise of a fragmented world.
Through repetitive everyday gestures, the character clings to their fading memories in an attempt to hold onto a dissolving sense of reality.
The performance explores the unsettling qualities of everyday life, and the way repetition both preserves and dismantles memory.
Performers
Tom-Oliver Jacobson
Tom-Oliver Jacobson is a Swedish performer, theatre maker and curator based in the Netherlands and Sweden. They are co-founder of the art institute DUST (2020-present) , which creates performances and installations through broad collaborations across various media, including choreography, theater and performance installations. Tom-Oliver has been a long-term performer in the award- winning group Sister Hope (2015-2019), which produces large scale durational performance installations in theatres, museums, schools and public spaces and is an alumni of DAS-Theatre, Amsterdam (2019-2021).
As a theatre maker and curator, Tom Oliver creates immersive, durational works that offer fleeting glimpses into worlds beyond the binary of utopia and dystopia.
Documentation
Picture by Lonneke van der Palen
Picture by Lonneke van der Palen
Picture by Lonneke van der Palen
Picture by Lonneke van der Palen