Metrofood...(impromptu)
Underground Picknick
We had visited a presentation at the city archive of Amsterdam and upon leaving looked for something to eat before our train trip back to Antwerp...
We came across an Indian restaurant that was willing to proide us with a take-away meal, since we were loathe to have a proper sit-down dinner, time being just a bit short for that. The 'Memories of Indoa' provided us with a sumptious picknick which we thought to enjoy in a perk or along a canal... but it started raining and we desecneded into the Metro – in the sparse-looking Vijzelstraat station we unpacked and ate our picnic... thinking of Ghandi on a british colonial railway platform but then in this case Metrofood instead of street food... the underground passengers probably thought of us as homeless people rather than (under-)street artists, even though this was a perfect 50/50 performance: sharing a meal across from each other with every now and then the metro trains from both the south and the north stopping almost simultaneously... everyone jostling in and out for a hectic period except us... leisurely letting the cadence of the city pass us by... timeless, Indian style, eating with our hands, finishing the finger-licking curry without a hurry ... a case for the 'unnoticed art' collection...
Players: Heinrich Obst & Guy Rombouts, Amsteradm Metrohalte Vijzelstraat (line 52) 20 december 2024
