Future of the past

Automatic storage, in the cloud, offline. We store a lot these days in a digital landscape where there is still so much to explore. What do we want left of us when we will soon be gone? Does that ever-growing digital archive affect us?

Based on questions like these, Marije Miedema, PhD student at the University of Groningen, interviewed 24 visitors to Netwerk Centrum De Klomp in Leeuwarden. A place where everyone is always welcome and steps inside. Whoever you are, wherever you come from, wherever you want to go. Collective PLOECH AND EIDE turned this material into short monologues, about the traces a human life makes. Six diverse characters talk about what they want to take with them and what they want to leave behind. 

Mees van den Bergh devised the concept and directs.
With text by Herman van de Wijdeven and Mees van den Bergh, music by Harmen Ridderbos and the voices of Anna Raadsveld, Wouter van Oord and Tim Helderman, among others.

These six stories can be heard in Bouwurk, Arcadia's meeting place in Leeuwarden. In the structure, two people at a time can put on headphones for each monologue to listen and also look at objects from the characters' lives. 

Credits
Direction and concept: Mees van den Bergh
RUG researcher and concept: Marije Miedema
Text: Mees van den Bergh and Herman van de Wijdeven
Music and editing: Harmen Ridderbos
Voices of Anna Raadsveld, Tim Helderman, Wouter van Oord, Tamara Schoppert and Gassan Zaoor, among others
Production: Eva Vos
Campaign image: Annelies Visser

This event takes place at the Oase in Bouwurk on the Oldehoofsterkerkhof in Leeuwarden, Friesland.