October 1st to October 9th, 2001
 
INS Residency at the DasArts Foundation, Amsterdam
 
As guests of the DasArts Foundation, Amsterdam, between the first and the ninth of October, 2001, the INS, in accordance with Paragraph Four, Footnote One of its First Manifesto, set out to reconstruct and analyse the attempted assassination, on the evening of the twenty-seventh of May, 1998, of the Dutch gangster Geert Roos, which resulted in the death of Roos's bodyguard.

newspaper report of event
 
The extended gun battle took place outside the Renaissance Hotel in the centre of Amsterdam.
 
  
Renaissance Hotel      spot where shootout started
 
The artist Dan Bodner, who was by chance standing several feet away with a friend when the shootout started, turned and ran into an alleyway; his friend, looking back towards the shootout, fell over Bodner's bike. In the alleyway, Bodner found himself trapped with one of the gangsters, who was standing at the head of the alleyway shooting out.
 
    
Bodner explains          the alleyway              Bodner mimicking gangster
what happened                                           shooting out of alleyway
 
Certain sequences from the event were restaged, and certain moments were isolated, extracted and repeated. These were performed first on a stage surrounded on all sides by fifty-centimetre grid squares, then in a wind tunnel.
 
      
 
      
shooting in Muybridge grid and at wind tunnel
 
  
wind tunnel factory; wind tunnel control and data gathering room
 
Particular attention was paid to the bodyguard,s self-sacrifice in saving Roos by throwing himself in front of him.
 
   
 
   
initial shootout in both Muybridge grid and wind tunnel
(choreography: Fahrudin Salihbegovic)
 
  
data generated by wind tunnel measuring devices
 
Intense attention was also paid to the moment at which Bodner picked up his bike to run from the scene and Bodner,s friend, looking back over his shoulder, fell over it.
 
   
 
   
turning and falling in both Muybridge grid and wind tunnel
(choreography: Sato Endo)
 
In one exercise, the first sequence was projected over the second.
 
  
 
On the evening of the ninth of October a public presentation was held.
 

press conference at public presentation
 
Two days later a formal discussion was held in the De Jahren Cafe, Amsterdam.

[CLICK HERE FOR TRANSCRIPT OF DISCUSSION]

DasArts Homepage: http://www.dasarts.nl/
 
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