Charlotte and Yiru’s thoughts:

Public space- hacking the theater

The focus of being the theatre

Behavior in different public/private spaces

1. Movie theatre& Theatre/ focus, quiet, ritual, careful of every movement(expectation of private quality time )

2. Restaurant v.s Imbiss( Gesture of ordering the food / ways of eating->all the behaviors)

Eating at home/public (european / asian)

3. Public transportation (no eyes contact?)

4. Walking on the street(orientation, don’t look at ppl)

Behaviors in different languages 

1. Ways of thought 

Behaviors in different Mimik

1. Watching (not) into the eyes while talking/disscussing

Concern about QR-code:

1. How should we create the intention of “scanning QRcode”?

Doing A in B

ex: the female artist cleaning the museum as a performing art

1. Bathing(relax/chill) v.s HB
2. Peeling fruits in the ?
3. Reading books in the supermarket
4. Water the plants in the train

Acting the police movement as a routine (without mentioning the resource)

ex: the situation of the police & protesters

1. Movement of hitting(by the police)
2. Movement of hiding
3. Movement of occupied

Ellis thoughts:

– have them in supermarkets and show a picture of a new arrangement we did when you scan the code

– have QR-codes in wardrobes, on toiletsmirrors, public spaces in the outside, office building, stores…

– we could show alternative sight of a space (like we allready did in the fotos of last week), present stories with the „Imagine that….“-theme,….

– we could interview people on their wishes for alternative ways of seeing things to gather ideas

– we could find a space where you can usually not sit and create a social area

Observing how the people from Zürich hack their everyday life.

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As a first exercise our group had to go out to the streets of Zürich and try out some hands-on interventions with the chosen topic of Cliches. We went to stores such as Manor, posed in front of pretentious advertisement or rearranged public places.

Hack the society in different dimensions/ purposes
– our theme: disturbing, norms, expectations and cliches, inside and outside view
– we talked about foreigner points (being foreigners in Switzerland)
– example: the movie „Das Fest des Huhnes“
– Gendered behaviour in public space (walking, taking space, sitting with broad legs)
– Cliche from Christmas market

Kid’s (Karussell) equipment (boundary in-between culture)
– adults not allowed on the Kids Karussell 😦
– Hacking family structures by giving the Karussells ticket to other peoples kids

Hacking Reality
– manipulating angel fountain
– setting ourselves in context to commercial posters or videos

Rearrange the objects in the supermarket
– Hacking supermarkets

Accidentally Hacking (from strangers)
– Industrial System
– Identity Boundary

Further possible:
-Theatrical context:
If the supermarket itself is a Venus, and the audience are the customer.
If our actions have two layers:
1. First step: Few people in 15mins sneaky arrange the items in one supermarket at a  “better” position as we thought.(everyone has camera on themselves.)
2. Second step: Few people go back to the position of customers(audience)to watch what they have done.( camera on too)

Some impressions

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