…tough as a pirate…

Welcome to the island!

No suitcases, bathing suits, sun lotions!

What you have on your body and maybe personal belongings of emotional value.

You stay some time and then go on. It is not a comforting place.

It is lonely on the island. Inhospitable.

If there were not little escapes in the escape to comfort you, where you find some relief to breathe, you might give up. But you are tough as a pirate.

As soon as possible you want to start a new life.

Maybe away from your comrades with whom you experienced violence, aggression, escape and danger.

You have had enough adventures.

Time to arrive.

“KEYSTORIES / UNKNOWN FRIENDS”

was designed for “Dourgouti Island Hotel,” a project about urban solitude, a neighborhood festival, which intended to bring together time and people, a two-day outdoors local creative-works festival on three adjacent places. The festival included performance art, theatre, dance, exhibition, walks, music all inspired by the yesterday, today or tomorrow of the neighborhood.

“KEYSTORIES / UNKNOWN FRIENDS”

a participatory performance in two parts

Preparation:

Live in the area

Find intangible treasures such as a remembrance, a story, a look, a glance, an encounter

Mark the territory

“KEYSTORIES”

keys on a pigeon-defense-skirt

brushwood on head

handing out keys

(what is this? this is a key. what for? to open a door. which door? a door, which is closed for you.)

“UNKNOWN FRIENDS”

would you mind to be my friend for a second?

may my friend take a picture of us?

This intervention will be continued throughout several places in 2015/2016.