L0vE

This performance took place at Gallery Tila, Helsinki.
During the opening hours, I was tied in the showcase; a text was displayed next to me. I interacted with people inside and outside the gallery. Some of them were nice, some not.

I had water in a bowl and, in the end, no pee breaks, and nobody untied me because, as some of them said: "you can not interfere with the pet of the other".
But maybe the next time.


Text on the wall:

L0VE (extract of a conversation)

Since you were little, you felt attracted by the wild; I don't know if it was because of the fear, the unknown... countless times I discovered you hiding a new one, I knew it would be useless to try to change your mind, and I knew that after a while you would be disappointed because how could you tame it without erasing its nature?
So I just said: "Remember to feed it”.
I think about love and wild animals. Here I often stare at the dogs tied at the doors of the supermarket; some of them bark or jump when you get close, like trying to tell me something; others just wait, looking towards the store where their humans, sometimes “the owners", wander between aisles like jungles, and sometimes I wish that the horizon made of glass and goods were a field full of trees; it is hard to remember that those dogs are descendants of wolves. Then the dogs, cats, and people who have lived with me come to mind, and I think of those I loved by possessing; and I wonder whether I could have changed my way of loving to let go, to let be, and whether it wouldn’t be easier to stop "looking for love" and just "give love".