Performance Score (to take away), 2025
Ink on paper, stack of A5

Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein (LI)

The Local is a participatory performance score designed to be taken away and enacted by visitors in any public space. The work invites individuals to perform a simple yet deeply charged action: walking. Participants follow a set of understated instructions that guide them through unfamiliar terrain – physically and psychologically. Beginning with a deliberate gait and focused gaze, the score proposes an intuitive wandering that subtly plays with rhythm, pace, and presence. The performance ends not at a destination, but at a threshold: ‚when the unfamiliar starts to feel familiar‘. What begins as a quiet dérive becomes a reflection on belonging, presence, and the choreography of everyday movement. As Monica Unser notes, a gait is never neutral – it can be a costume of confidence, a shield against threat, or a means of blending in. In this work, walking becomes both a strategy of inclusion and a tool for observing one‘s own relation to safety, difference, and visibility in urban space.

Photos by Martina Morger