Existential questions make me wander about the streets at night. “Indian” is my search for identity within a new culture, its people and territory. An unexpected visitor, a barbaric creature, the arrival of the Indian is the cause of disruption in the public space.

Performance by Daniel Valentim presented at the Noorderzon festival, in Groningen, The Netherlands, on August 2009; at the Museum Night, in Amsterdam,The Netherlands, on November 2011; and at the ‘Mmm’ group exhibition at the Vishal, Haarlem, The Netherlands, 2014

Video documentation: camera by Bart Nijstad, edit by Daniel Valentim

Photo documentation by Aldwin van de Ven