TOMASTMT

HIDDEN WATERS

RWZI AMSTELVEEN

A project that merges elements of storytelling and performance including garments, sculptures and illustrations.

The peformance took place at the Sludge Sanctuary, “a sacred place of utmost importance for human collectivity. A site of a multispecies collaboration, where bacterias are the enchanters performing purgatory magic.”

Visitors were guided in the darkness towards a location to listen and watch the illustrated story that was beamed on a water tank.

TOMASTMT (IT/NL, 1993) is a project rooted in research, creative writing, and site-specificity that focuses on themes of ecology and nonhuman perspectives.
Merging storytelling, landscapes, and mythology, magical places and works are created through collaboration with Rebekka Bank under the name MIST.
By juxtaposing their preferred materials—textiles and ceramics—they produce sculptural objects, performances, installations and fictional narratives that inspire reflection on contemporary life and invite us to reconsider humanity’s place within the interconnected web of everyday life.