My intention with Translocal : Camp in my Tent is to examine the boundaries between public and private space and to explore the idea of camping as an act of both tourism, nomadism , impermanence controlled leisure and voyeurism. In conceiving Translocal : Camp in my Tent I have been inspired by my experience spending time in Bedouin Camps (1994 to1996) in the Israeli Desert Negev as well as by the awareness of the contradictions and complexities in my experience of everyday life lived in a highly technological and decentralized society where our preoccupation with inter connectivity, nomadism, home, dwelling, hybridity, identity and embodiment have been always negotiable.

TRANSLOCAL:Camp in my TENT

PUBLIB PERFORMANCES WITH MY TENT AS INTERVENTIONS AND ENACTEMENT OF MYSELF:
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The appropriation of the public space as the stage by the means of the enactment of myself as the camper in my tent attempts to pave the way into a direct relationship with the public and the community Each public performances consist by a step by step almost instructional ritual of myself embodied into the main actor setting up, inhabiting and taking down my tent in a public space of each city without any special notice nor permission by the local authorities. What is remarkable about the performance is that while the event is taking place it becomes a site of audience activation, a form of engagement as I am exposed in the unpredictability as a byproduct of the event. The event develops through encounters with the viewers that traverse public boundaries who slowly are given the opportunity to come and stay in my tent. Of course the action itself of setting up the tent encounters all kinds of reactions, interactions and reinforcements which come from the public, the police etc. i,e when I was setting up the tent in Central park in New York City the police enforced me to take it down immediately while in Rotterdam I was forced by the police to do the performance on the police boat in the city's harbor.