Karin Hasselberg

 How did it start?' I was living in the Bijlmer, in the South-East of Amsterdam, in one of those suburban concrete houses. It was februari, it was extremely depressive, gray. And they had some kind of workshop at the Rietveld and I felt I didn't fit in into the idea of the workshop and I was sitting at home in my appartment. And all around me they were tearing down buildings and building new ones and there was a whole lot of digging and working and construction going on. I felt bored and tired and I had to do something. Something physical. Exhaust myself. And change something. Just to do something physical. Change the environment and myself with my own hands. In a shop called the Gamma I bought a shovel. And then I came back and dug the first hole. And I asked a friend of mine to record it, the action.'

 An important decision. To record it? 'Yes. I felt I should... I did'nt really have something like a a masterplan or a concept. I had to do this and I should record this.' So all of a sudden it became important? 'Yes like underlined. Registered.' How to pick a spot. Where?'I was living on the first floor and it was just down there, under the balcony.' Later meer