Inefficient Harbor

The Port of Rotterdam is the largest of its kind in the world. It is fully automated, and humans are not allowed to enter, as doing so would threaten both their safety and the system’s efficiency. In our daily lives, we rarely think about the journey the objects in our homes take, how far they travel, and the complex systems they navigate to get to us.

„Inefficient Harbor” is a performance with the primary task of transporting 40 bricks from point A to point B. Humans are not allowed to touch them with their bare hands. To accomplish this task, a set of tools and an entire process were designed to solve the challenge. Each tool is inefficient in its own way, celebrating the beauty of human error, the repetition, and the continuity of the process. This work questions current values considered paramount worldwide, such as time and efficiency, and places emphasis on the process itself. Do we need to be slaves to machines to be truly happy?

The Balancing Act  

Each sculpture was created through a process of trading and „weighing” the objects used in terms of their value. The value of the objects used is always equivalent, but it is easy to lose that balance. This is a reference to the current global situation, where all trade dependencies are closely interconnected. One mistake in the supply chain can disrupt the balance and cause serious problems.