The panicked human:
1. hide
Hiding things so others can’t get to them. In pockets and backpacks, in a house with a door and a lock. Cash in plastic: buried in a flowerpot, stuck in a shower drain, behind the coat rack. In jars of mayonnaise. Between mattress layers. Behind photos. Inside the guitar. Under a lamp base. In the pile of mail on the doormat. In the grass catcher of a lawnmower.
2. blend in
Merge with the crowd. Move like everyone else. Dye your hair. Adjust your clothing. Stay clean. Stay quiet. Watch your shoes—their color, material. Don’t smell. Glasses, sunglasses. Maybe a cap. Colored contacts? Avoid eye contact, but not anxiously. Move naturally, fluidly, with purpose. Learn a new way of walking (but don’t walk too fast). Look at your phone so you can keep an eye on things through your peripheral vision.
3. extremes
Scream. Push. Faint. Grab. Kick. Shoot. Go rigid.
4. a haze
Have a drink and/or smoke and/or take a pill or powder.
5. A pact
MOHA says: come here. Humans are a species together. We are not loners. There’s strength in numbers. Come, join. We take stock of what we have. What are we good at, what’s still missing? And then, when the storm rages, we will hold hands. Until June 30, MOHA (Waffa Al Attas, Alice Pons, Olivia Reschofsky) works on *Before the Storm* at SHEBANG Amsterdam. *Before the Storm* is a participatory installation and exhibition. You can attend the opening on Friday evening, June 13