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2011. Follow Your Dream

Salzburg, the city where W.A.Mozart was born. In the summer it gets crowded with tourists. As tourism is of great benefit to the city, it becomes cluttered with various signs, instructions and tourist guides. Each one has their own means and objects so that their group can easily follow...

My idea was to interfere/break those groups by walking slowly through and holding a sign with a romantic note, saying: "FOLLOW YOUR DREAM". Romantic, yet philosophical, in a way, it is supposed to distract the tourists and make them aware of this "blind" consumptive following and offer more inner and personal path and valuation to follow...   so romantic...

1. Hand-made sign; made from city's leftover umbrella

2. The sign has 2 sides; both sides say: "FOLLOW YOUR DREAM"

3. I (artist) hold the sign up high and enter/break through groups of tourists

4. Two cameras are documenting:

   - one from a side when I am entering a group (from my back)

   - other camera from the side where I exit the group (my front)

1. When ever I show up in video frame the speed is getting slower, to emphasize the moment of contact and encounter with the people from the crowd and to make it more dramatic

2. The sound that appears in the video is the original sound of one Salzburg's church, every day at 11h. Hearing the sound is one of tourist attractions. Tourists then usually stop in front, look at the church, take photos and leave after the sound is over.

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2011. “Follow Your Dream”, performance and video installation, Salzburg, Austria