Projekt-/Veranstaltungs-Ort, Öffnungszeiten:
26 Grundsteingasse 30 - Grundsteingasse 30
who are you? what is the future you are dreaming of?
Artist and Performer: Gaby Bila-Günther
Ongoing project concept by the artist since 2000, initiated in Melbourne Australia.
An interactive project inside one of Soho's public spaces, where the audience will be invited to fill out questionaries about their ideal society they would like to build. Ongoing project concept by the artist since 2000, initiated in Melbourne Australia.
Who are you? What is future Utopian society dreaming? is the title of this spokenword, interactive performance. I will write out various questions the audience must answer upon entering the performance space. These questions will be based around the image eveyone has of themselves and how they see themselves fit in into our present society: eg: I am 24 years old unemployed white person who was born in Vienna etc…or I am 30 years old self employed migrant from former Jugoslavia…etc…or I am 40 year old lesbian.
These questions will focus on the identity of each member of the audience but their name will remain anonymous. The second part of the survey will be asking what is your future Utopian society dreaming where each person will have to give strong statements about how they foresee and understand how to build a better society or status for themselves, what changes must they make to satisfy this, how tolerant must a society be to accept all people in it.
These questionairs will force the audience to think about the elements of a better society, what can be changed in order to obtain its structure that works not only for the rich and prosperous but is kind others who do less good because they have less opportunities to be independent or they are born on the wrong side of the fence.
These questionaires will be then hung on the walls and the public will be able to review the answers and statements that others have made. I would like to then build a dialogue-discussion based on these answers and force the public to respond to each other and discuss the various issues regarding their personal view about a Utopian society. This dialogue will be followed by a spokenword performance that will deal with this topic:
Who are you? What is future Utopian society dreaming?
I have innitiated this project since 2000 in Melbourne Australia and have been asking this question in many cities around the world.
