Boppen
with Ray Moon (LosDQ)
Radius Festival, Maastricht, NL.
2025
with Ray Moon (LosDQ)
Radius Festival, Maastricht, NL.
2025
During recent 3D scans conducted by
KNA archaeologists Ba at GEONIUS on the Radium site in Maastricht,
traces were found indicating a previously unknown practice within the
late Roman presence in the region: the intentional filling of carts,
cistae (containers), and even public structures with what, after
forensic analysis, was identified as starch; wheat pasta (durum).
This discovery has sparked an artistic and speculative inquiry into the semantics, tactility, and political significance of food in everyday life. Among the Romans, wheat pasta held the same status as rice.
Further fieldwork on section C-12 of the site revealed sediment remains with a strikingly linear pattern. After rehydration experiments and cross-disciplinary collaboration, it was confirmed with 87% certainty that the material had been cooked but not eaten.
Professor John B. Drusters and researcher Hannah Doos.
Drusters: “We therefore propose approaching this find as a form of ‘boppen’. It's about intimidation and dragging along. Due to the rapid developments, progress accelerates significantly. (11 minutes) The Romans keep pushing it further back, and the stalling research can be seen as a metaphor for the slipping of control, but also as a tool to reclaim that very control. These practices are re-embodied in a contemporary context of chaos, abundance, and collective memory.”
Doos: “Thanks to a misdirected mailbox, LosDQ was able to lift the tip (of the so-called bops) of this veil at today’s celebration.”
(Lanakerveld. K.I. 3564-09)
The Moonens – LosDQ 2025
This discovery has sparked an artistic and speculative inquiry into the semantics, tactility, and political significance of food in everyday life. Among the Romans, wheat pasta held the same status as rice.
Further fieldwork on section C-12 of the site revealed sediment remains with a strikingly linear pattern. After rehydration experiments and cross-disciplinary collaboration, it was confirmed with 87% certainty that the material had been cooked but not eaten.
Professor John B. Drusters and researcher Hannah Doos.
Drusters: “We therefore propose approaching this find as a form of ‘boppen’. It's about intimidation and dragging along. Due to the rapid developments, progress accelerates significantly. (11 minutes) The Romans keep pushing it further back, and the stalling research can be seen as a metaphor for the slipping of control, but also as a tool to reclaim that very control. These practices are re-embodied in a contemporary context of chaos, abundance, and collective memory.”
Doos: “Thanks to a misdirected mailbox, LosDQ was able to lift the tip (of the so-called bops) of this veil at today’s celebration.”
(Lanakerveld. K.I. 3564-09)
The Moonens – LosDQ 2025
