Fake Taxi is an ongoing documented performance in a taxi ride, revealing the encounters that take place between a real taxi driver, a passenger and a spectator. Visual artist Laura Eager and theatre maker Rosa Gooij use film and performance to investigate the public and private entries of a taxi, and the encounters happening between drivers and passengers. What is shared at this moment, how do they perceive or interact with one another, and what effect does this have on how they view the current world around them?
The project began in September 2024, and has been presented at BUDA in Belgium (Sep '24), What Is Happening Here Gallery in Amsterdam (Jan '25), MOMO Festival in Rotterdam (April '25) and Space - O in Dusseldorf (Oct '25). It has received developmental support from Mondriaan Fund, Amarte Fund, Amsterdam fonds voor de kunst and Theater Deyssel.
Biography
Laura Eager is a visual artist and performer from the UK and currently based in Amsterdam, where she graduated from the audio visual department of the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in 2023. Her practices uses a docu-fiction method of filming and performing, to explore the borders of public and private space, and the shifting dynamics of power, control and desire within daily encounters. Her work often uses the body and camera as a tool to mediate interactions, and provoke questions on spectator -performer relationship, the politics of the gaze and acts of observation. Her work has been presented both in the Netherlands and internationally at MOMO Festival (Rotterdam), BUDA (Kortrijk, Belgium), and Space O (Düsseldorf, Germany).
Rosa Gooij is an Amsterdam born and raised theatre maker, performer and teacher. In 2023 she graduated from the bachelor theatre teacher at the Amsterdam University of the Arts. Her work can be found in the city streets, landscapes, festivals and night culture. Her collective ‘Digidiheu’ brings freaky magical performances, infiltrates the mostly festive crowd with playful interactive puppetry rituals and stories. With ‘groep Horizon’ she combines installation art with location theatre, inhabiting landscapes and building focused experiences for their audiences She is also part of ‘De Slapelozen’ an Amsterdam based theatre group, working in community centres, retirement homes, and pop ups in street life.
