An immersive and deeply touching video installation.

Awarded the ILO artist award 2025.

Choreographer Katja Heitmann collects and preserves ‘human movement’. More than 2,000 people have already donated their personal movements. In the new artwork PERPETUUM, you meet these moving ‘movement donors’ .

Each time different people from the Motus Mori archive are made visible on a monumental scale. As you get closer, you stand face to face with them and hear the stories behind their movements. In a sea of light, your personal movement also becomes visible.

Katja Heitmann is fascinated by humankind’s continuous attempt to make themselves immortal. This is why, since 2019, she has been collecting personal movements to keep them for the future. Based on this Motus Mori archive of movement, she creates new artworks each time, which make you pause to think about what moves us as humans.

Duration: perpetuum mobile

Theaterkrant: “It feels as if you are standing face to face with the people, even though you know it is a video. That feeling is reinforced when they take a big step forward and stand right in front of you. Enchantment takes over from reality for a moment. (…) Increasingly compelling and exuding respect for fellow human beings.”

Jury ILO Artist Award 2025: “PERPETUUM renders visible how individual acts become collective experience, turning light into a medium that preserves movement as poetic memory.”

Credits
Concept, artistic creation: Katja Heitmann
Concept, music, creative producer: Sander van der Schaaf
Interviews: Anton van der Sluis, Eleni Ploumi, Maria Mora Navarro
Editing assistant: Maria Mora Navarro
Production: Stichting This is not a show
Video performers in the installation: Stijn, Ton and Marieke, Marijn, Joost, Yda, Jos, Sandra, Doedt, Maartje, Svea and Efía, Ruud, Feicko, Mendel, Willem, Sanoune, Mark, Selma, Frans, Phil, Irandokth, Mike and Helen, Debra, Lara, Lewis, Marion, Janetta, Sonja, Tamsin, Jane, Angel, Kath and Ian, Ulfrid, Jack, Gurvani, Chloe, Phoebe, Consi, Teddy, Princess, Khadijah, Harriet
Programming advice: Vincent Vriens/ Beeldjutters
Set design: Edwin Daemen
Realization technical material: Corne van de Schoor
(Creation) Supported by: Fonds Podiumkunsten, Gemeente Tilburg, Provincie Noord Brabant ,
ASML x Brabant C

Co-production partners: Media Art Festival, SPRING Performing Arts Festival