It's about desire
Performance by Andrea SalzmannInstruction
"It's about desire" is a performative intervention in public space which can be also transferred into an exhibition space.
It started as a simple question: What is it that you desire the most? Please write it down and put it in the box. It wll fly away with a balloon.
In the context of an exhibition you are invited to sit down and wright it on a small piece of paper. Later on we will let the desires
fly with the balloons. Nobody will know what you have written down – it remains a secret.
The project started with the interest to ask people in the mega-city Beijing what is it that keeps
them going. What are they looking for? Together with a photographer and translator I was roaming in
one of the inner districts of Beijing. Here the direct interaction was the important part – women
working in a kitchen having their smoke break, men operating as guards, elderly people as well as
kids had fun to take part in the performance.
For Vienna the interaction in the public space is planned in front of the United Nation building.
It might happen in the first week of June.
