Web-first iIn 2020, a global state of emergency prevented any compact travel plans that would have followed on from the Global Loop project of 2000. Instead, “The Big Picture of an Unknown Traveller” was created over an extended period of time – inspired by KTDI (an international plan for Known Traveller Digital Identity). The multi-perspective concept counters the experience of lockdowns and restrictions with the narrative of a kind of hero’s journey – dedicated to all those who have always set out to find themselves in the world … ongoing
Episode 1 – The Island
One morning I woke up and felt paralysed. I was unable to move. As if I had been cut off from my inner self. Only slowly did I become aware of my transformation. I suffered from emotional congestion, or rather, I felt an absolute powerlessness and inability to express myself adequately …
Episode 2 – The Source
(Moscow) It was the first day in August, a quiet afternoon, when he took me to Moscow City. He introduced me to a woman called Vera, his secret informant. She worked at the Birds Club and had very special information for me, a lot of classified documents. I couldn’t believe how far things had progressed …
Episode 3 – Silent Storm
At some point this pass had become completely impassable, the way blocked by high accumulations of sand. But I took a shortcut over rocky mountains and was amazed myself at how easily I slid down the slopes without losing my footing – my hands found their grip, my feet gained ground, and I glided down the rocks as if in dense flight …
(Mongolian Episode)
Episode 4 – The Delusion
When I arrived in the late afternoon, the crowd managers had already instructed most people to leave the grounds. The party feeling was gone and I noticed certain symptoms of exhaustion. When I finally entered the resort through the back entrance, I was excited. I had no idea who I was going to meet there …
Venice Episode
your certificate please! Performance 2022 aus
– “Of all the specific freedoms that come to mind when we hear the word freedom, freedom of movement is not only historically the oldest, but also the most elementary; being able to set out wherever one wants is the most primal gesture of being free, just as, conversely, the restriction of freedom of movement has always been the precondition for enslavement.”
– Hannah Arendt, People in Dark Times, 2014 (1968) EVENING OF THE DAMN
