The project Collage Soup attempts to experiment with different soft interferences on a day out in the city. The urban city is stage that although very chaotic it is highly choreographed, accident are avoided at every moment. The people who live in the city have become accustomed to this choreographed dance, through their seemingly never ending daily routine.
The objective of our project was to intervene, create a space for possible reflection, with difference sets of tool and measure their results on "stage". We came up with more than one idea, such as; interference in a commercial Stockholm city guide, critic on urban etiquette in the Tunelbanna (Metro), a precise daily event we called Sun Art: This is not Photoshop and others, but ultimately we tried to choreograph all these small ideas/activities in a bigger chain of events.
The idea behind the city guide was of to appropriate a commercial product, this product itself had previously appropriated local expertise of the cities habitants, and then give it back to the city. This was done by making three incisive cuts based on the layout of the guide, by doing this you could turn different pages randomly mixing different peoples advices for the city. We also blackened all references to the product which the guide tried to boost, a tactical un-mapping of commercial strategy of appropriation of local expertise.
The Hints on Etiquette was done as a social comment, by us outsiders and now new habitants of Stockholm, on the civic behaviour in public spaces. This was done by scripting to actors not what they should do but how they should react in the event of specific body movement, situation and action. This was done based on personal experience of the indecisiveness of remarking the other in this confined public space where everyone try hard to avoid each other and go about their business.