Good Neighbours Amsterdam

Good Neighbours Amsterdam played out in the streets of the Transvaalbuurt in Amsterdam East where the audience was invited to join a fictional WhatsApp neighbourhood watch group while walking through the neighbourhood. Events begin to unfold in the neighbourhood WhatsApp group as well as live on the street… creating an exciting blur between fiction and reality.

The narrative in the app is based on location-specific ethnographic research conducted in Amsterdam East that explored questions about WhatsApp, NextDoor, Ring doorbell cameras and Tesla Dashcams.

CREDITS

Initiators and creative direction
Klasien van de Zandschulp, Natalie Dixon (affect lab)

Theatre direction
Puck van Dijk

Scriptwriter
Roziena Salihu

Production
Manon Eekelder

Cast
Chava Voor in ‘t Holt played Sanne, the garbage terrorist
Tarik Rahali played the estate agent
Jip Loots played the “guy in the hoodie”
Elien van Helden played the paranoid curtain twitcher

Voice Artists
Mark Goede
Ruben Jacobs
Myrthe Niens

Photography
Antal Guszlev
Anita Bharos

Video
Anita Bharos / LAB8 WORKS

Special thanks to
Najah Aouaki
Yinka Danmole
Geert Lovink
Judith Meibergen
Anneli Vanenburg
Antal Guszlev
Mark Meeuwenoord