HIKER

HIKER is a solo performance by artist duo Ezra Veldhuis & Bosse Provoost, with Gerben Vaillant.

HIKER blurs the boundaries between body, landscape, and hiking gear. The entire world of the performance (scenography, lighting, sound, fictions, unexpected images, shapes, and volumes) emerges from a figure laden with gear: the clothing, tools, bags, shelter, food, and protective equipment that a person uses to survive in an inhospitable environment.


HIKER uses the contents of a mountain hiker's backpack as its vocabulary. Ezra and Bosse stretch and distort the possibilities of hiking materials to represent what drives us into the ‘wilderness’. What desires do we project onto the mountains, onto the ‘untouched’, onto the ‘no man's land’? And what are we trying to escape there? In what ways are our dreams and desires marketed into stuff?

In the performance, they look at a wrestling with gear, which, when unpacked, gradually transforms into a simulacrum of an unattainable landscape.