Luisa Pisetta Ravanelli
Vaga

Performance with Chiara Duchi.
2020 Piazza delle Erbe/Obstplatz, Bolzano/Bozen (Italy).

“when was the last time you ate popcorn?”

Such a simple question can open a long conversation, make the people think of buried memories revealing some unexpected answers.
The purpose of the performance was to mix a crowd that was clustered and bounded, but at the same time characterized by the chaos of Saturday night.

The artists tied two random strangers to each other, giving them one end of a long thread to which he/she had the task to follow the other and ask the question. As a result, the political structure of the groups inside the square is disrupted. This place is where university students (of all faculties) and local people (of all mother tongues and ages) meet on weekends to have a drink.

New groups of people were created, disorienting the social geography of the place, and changing the pattern of relationships.