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“Let us consider this waiter in the cafe. His movement is quick and forward, a little too precise, a little too rapid. He

comes towards the patrons with a step a little too quick. He bends forward a little too eagerly, his voice, his eyes express

an interest a little too solicitous for the order of the customer. Finally there he returns, trying to imitate in his walk the in-

flexible stiffness of some kind of automaton while carrying his tray with the recklessness of a tightrope walker by putting

it in a perpetually unstable, perpetually broken equilibrium which he perpetually re-establishes by a light moment of the

arm and hand, all his behaviour seems to us a game… He is playing, he is amusing himself. But what is he playing? We

need not watch long before we can explain it: he is playing at being a waiter in a cafe.”

(Sartre, Being and Nothingness, London: Methuen, 1957)

Curated by Johanna Weiß

Credits:

Performance: 

Rahel Barra, Aybike Kolmas, Eden Kudaschov, Donald Phillips, Sandra Regenbogen, Gabriele Rendina Cattani, Simon Schwan.

Camera:

Juliet Carpenter, John Flindt, Robin Stretz, Jia Jun Nicholas Toh. 

Technical: 

Ben Ackermann.

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