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We live in the permanent now. Can we experience more than one moment at a time? A single image created over two days Simultaneous existence in two continents Recorded on photopaper. A preservation of motion As a photogram in a pinhole camera tent. Inside Separated from daily life We live a photographic phenomenon Interacting with the photopaper on the floor To see ourselves as a third person in the photogram. Outside, the city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo. We observe the exterior world Through a camera obscura image brought in by available light How do people live out their daily lives in the Netherlands and China? Though separated from our natural surroundings We are inseparable from it. With a relationship to the physical world and a need for different aspects of it Be flexible and ingenious to survive In an environment of constant flux. __________________________________________________ Tentaobscura places a window on our surroundings, a fixed frame and a set exposure which gives us a manageable sample of the world -- something to hang on to for a moment before it all rushes by. This ongoing performance first took place half in the Netherlands and half in the P.R. China. The work was presented in the 'Via' exhibition during February 2005 in China. This collaborative project took place in the cities of Xiamen and Quanzhou as a series of lectures and exhibitions that immersed us and the Chinese community in an exchange of understanding -- an understanding of possibilities 'for being' as we have come to think. emi_kodama@hotmail.com materializer@gmail.com