⋉​  A daily path

Encouragements
Anna Raimondo

Artwork made in Bussels, Belgium
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Where:
  • Choose a few of your daily spaces - a coffee bar, supermarket, public transport, a bank in a square, a public garden - in which you can rely on a kind of proximity with other people, so that they can listen to you.

When:
  • At anytime, no matter the moment of the day, as long as there will be at least one person who could possibly listen to your conversation and with whom you could silently interact with.

How to prepare:
  • Make a list of the most influential women in your life, women that you may consider strong and powerful. Women that have, in a moment of your life, encouraged you to make something special, to feel stronger, to make an actual change, or that have inspired you. This could be your grandmother, your mother, the wisest friend you have, the one who let you discover feminism, your gynecologist, a theoretician, a special friend, your girlfriend, etc.
  • Ask them to send you encouragements that they themselves have received from other women: this could be a quote or a simple sentence, that in a specific moment of their lives has had a significant impact, to make them feel stronger.
  • Encouragements are very subjective and contextual sentences, don’t be afraid, and recognize that they all are valid.

How to perform:
  • By using these sentences of encouragements as a starting point, compose an imaginary dialogue for a simulated telephone conversation that takes place whilst walking about in public space. Wear headphones.
  • While performing this imaginary telephone conversation feel free to create physical proximity with the people you might cross. Sit closed by to them as if there is the occasion, look into their eyes, as if it was to them that you were speaking.
  • Remember to speak louder in loud spaces and to speak softly when all around is silent.
  • Use your hands and your body to accompany your voice while telling the encouragements.

Leave your own trace:
  • After enacting this audio intervention, share the sentences of your encouragements with us on @acts.of.air, or to crisap@arts.ac.uk. You might include the names of the people involved and a picture of one or more of the places you choose for your own intervention.
  • One day this can become a publication to share.


​Image text: ' - Don't mind what you are reproached for, just push it to the extreme, it's you anyway'

Please follow the COVID-19 guidance measures in your location when enacting these artworks - always ensure necessary social distance and use any relevant protective wear.
Share your sentences of encouragements.
You might include the names of the people involved, or a picture
​of one of the places you choose for your own intervention. ​
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