I created a map and an instruction for myself. I put on a white dress and took a one-hour walk through downtown Porto. I threw out the garbage and didn’t put on any shoes. Spontaneously. I’ve been watching the people watching me. They don’t look me in the eye, but they’re looking for me. I felt naked and devoid. The experience of discomfort. The experience of nudity. Slowly I got used to it and didn’t feel tense. I’ve been wondering what people think, what stories are forming in their heads. I appeared for a moment in the rush of strangers and flew away like a ghost and left them without a word.
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Spontaneously with Paula: Try to create an unpleasant situation for us and the people on the street. We started by surprising random people with a question. We provoked the situation so that one of us would fall out of his wallet. Paula asked, “What’s your biggest fear?” and I asked, “Why are you here?”
As I continued to think about how we could get ourselves into an unpleasant situation, I laid down on the sidewalk and Paula asked people what they thought of the situation: What am I doing?
Thirdly, I found a tree with a big hole, and I started to put all the things I had into the tree: books, wallet, phone, keys. Paula was watching the situation with the strangers.
Angelika Czubasiewicz, 2022
