‘We  are  facing  a  rescue  operation  unparal-leled  until  this moment. We must  achieve  a full evacuation of 16 million people within a month’s time. This means over 170.000 people per  day.  Only  one  country,  the  Hungarian Republic  is willing  to  admit  the  Dutch  refugees, especially because  there  is  a  very  limited  chance  that  they  will  ever  be  able  to return to their homeland.’
(www.dangerzone.nl)

What if Holland was swept away by a tsunami, and  only  Hungary  admitted  the  refugees?
What  if  the  total population  of Holland was resettled and the Dutch should try to integrate into life in Hungary?

By this mock disaster scenario, SPACE reveals the unique characteristics of the two countries. Holland Tsunami  is an exploratory operation on national identity and on the fear of loosing it.  It sheds poetic light on the problems the new European countries  have with their own image and on  the conceitedness of  the West.
Complex  sociopolitical  themes  are  brought back to human standards.
Holland Tsunami  is neither a scientific study, nor a political pamphlet, but a feverish chain of thoughts full of self-irony.

Holland Tsunami is a co-production of SPACE
and Workshop  Foundation.  It  premiered  at
LOW  Dutch-Flemish  Kultfeszt  at  the  Keleti
Railway Station in Budapest.

Special thanks to Mihály Vígh for the Balaton songs.

www.lowfesztival.hu
workshop@c3.hu