A museum can’t just be a collection of objects anymore. That’s a station that’s already passed, is what the audience learns from Charles Esche, during the opening of the third weekend of the Caucus. Again, the director of the Van Abbemuseum explaines what the Caucus is about. “With Be[com]ing Dutch we have to develop new relationships”, Esche says during his openingspeech.

“Relationships with Eindhoven and with the rest of the world, with the participants of the Caucus. Relationships between people and between people and objects.” That probably can’t be realized before the Be[com]ing Dutch exhibition in May 2008. “Maybe not even before 2050″, Esche says, laughing. Magic words he uses, are ’strange and close’. Like a relationship between neighbours.

Finally, Esche sums up what the Caucus has been like for him in the past two weeks; encouraging, confusing and inspiring towards new possibilities. Then it’s time to proceed with inspiring and confusing things. Next on the agenda is the keynote lecture Religion as Medium by Boris Groys, who in the mean time has come close, to keep with Charles Esche’s words.