Aernout Mik’s Reversal Room premiered in the United States at the Johnson Museum in 2004. It is installed within a circular construction juxtaposing two scenes: one takes place in a restaurant, and the other in a kitchen. Each scene was recorded simultaneously on five cameras using untrained actors and constructed sets. Featuring five floor-to-shoulder video projections, Reversal Room completely surrounds viewers with slowly rotating, synchronized tableaux, creating the impression that they are situated in the middle of the events. In Mik’s works, people do not interact with one another. Intentions are not clear, and activities have patterns but no beginning or end. Most strikingly, there is no dialogue. At times inexplicable or disquieting, Mik’s installations examine the dynamics of the social, political, and aesthetic relationships of everyday life, questioning, in Mik’s own words, “the blown-up sense of individuality in Western cultures.”