Live-Performance and public intervention

Permission To Sit

Permission To Sit

Live-Performance and public intervention 

Duration: 5 hours

Dressed up as an AIDA waitress I take a five hours public break at an Aida café. The camouflage of the working cloths is similar too the smallest detail of the original one. Through the permanent consumption I am paying for my break. The small and quiet public intervention – perceived from the costumers and Aida waitresses as a strike – increases over hours to a provocation.

The performance Permission To SIT at Aida is a part of a whole performance series, which deal with precarious work environments in the public service sector.

PERFORMED AT

Aida, Stephansplatz, Vienna (AT), 2010


CREDITS

Photo documentary by:

Lisbeth Kovačič & Anita Scherzer