Igor Dobricic spoke about ALMOSTREAL during the opening discussion of the Be(com)ing Dutch project at the Van Abbe museum in Eindhoven, on Saturday 27th of January. Be[com]ing Dutch is a two year project developed both inside and outside the museum, which consists of debates, reading groups, artist’s projects, exhibitions, residencies, and forms of collective participation and production. Leading up to an intensive three week international Caucus [meeting] in November 2007. The final phase will be an large scale exhibition of newly commissioned works. Be[com] ing Dutch seeks to put our ideas of cultural identity under pressure and examine the processes of inclusion and exclusion in The Netherlands today. As questions of cultural identity and normative ‘national’ values become ever more of an issue in political and cultural debate, Be[com] ing Dutch asks whether art might offer alternative examples of thinking about how we might live together today. Be[com]ing Dutch is developed by Charles Esche and Annie Fletcher and others in- and outside the Van Abbemuseum. Institutional partnerships: BAK [Utrecht], New Museum of Contemporary Art [New York], Goldsmiths College [London], Kosmose [Eindhoven] and Stichting Interart [Arnhem].