Who would not know it, the mousy bag made from plastic fabric with the chequer pattern? It is cheap, at the same time practical and in it’s use manyfold. Everyone changing house or having to move materials of all kind esteems its services. Each bag not only carries things but also stories.“ Is a bag just a bag?“ we are asking and invite to tell stories. Stories we collect from families, neighbours, stories of bag-users of all ages.
And we will start to play with them, perform them.
Which contents of the bags will surface in the shape of narratives, stories? Who is ready to share the personal ones? And which fictional ones are we able to create?
The plastic material also appears at construction sites of the rapidly growing and changing city, creating a temporary and sometimes shabby, sometimes fantastic architecture pointing at the future, pointing at what is to come. How will they look, the homes of the future?
Along the stories of the bags we reflect our relation to consumption, to ecology, to life in the cities, to loneliness and anonymity.