Situation för offentlig bänk #1

Performance, 20 min
Replika of public bench (metal, oak)
Monologue performed by Antonello Motta, prologue performed by Caroline Nordell
Written by Astrid Braide Eriksson and Caroline Nordell

Documentation from the exhibition Grå Materia, Årsta Partihallar, 6 june 2025



The work uses a replica of one of Stockholm city’s public benches as a stage, on wich a monologue is performed. The bench is placed in an alley way in Stockholms food grocer’s district - a place surrounded by motorway and thus hidden from the everyday life of the city. In the monologue, the charachter ”man with plastic bag” seems lost in the area. It’s unclear how long he’s been there, he’s simultaneously willingly and unwillingly disoriented. 
The text is two fold - in a prologue, the citys front side is described through a visit to the employees toilet at a café in the city center. The audience is then asked to follow the reader into an alley way behind the exhibition venue, to a seemingly new public bench. A man approaches, sits down, and starts to talk.