Superdrum Veenfabriek / Touki Delphine

On a stage stands the Superdrum: a monstrous construction of a hundred

drums, played by recycled materials from car wrecks. From squeaking

windshield wiper motors to ticking switches. Here the machine drives the beat,

while actress Jacobien Elfers, as the last person, tries to pass on what threatens to

fade away. What did the beginning sound like? What does the end sound like? And most importantly: how does our story remain

exist when there is no one left to tell?

SUPERDRUM is a poetic performance about being human, forgetting, thinking slowly

and the wisdom of not knowing everything. The Veenfabriek and Touki Delphine explain all kinds of

creation stories side by side, from Swahili myths to half-remembered

Scandinavian sagas. To the rhythm of the Superdrum we thunder through time. From

the natural - to the artificial evolution. And from the first - to the last man.

She says, "You don't know everything yet. You can never know everything. You don't know how we are

come into being. You don't know what things I've forgotten." The machine says, "tell me

than.