Sara Leghissa is an artist, performer and researcher based in Milano. Graduated in Contemporary history (MA) with a thesis in Social and Politic Communication, she co-founded, with F. De Isabella, the company Strasse, involved in site-specific production in the public space.
The content of the lecture explores some illegal practices present in our daily life and how we embody the illegality itself. It comes from personal shared experiences and interviews, and it also echoes some strategies and practices already used by different people and activists from all around the world, as forms to circumvent the law without violating it. Considering the law as a fluid parameter, which changes depending on where we are in the world, the historical period in which we live and the sort of privileges we enjoy, the work invites people to relate directly with the boundaries between what is legal and what is illegal. In its live version, I wear a fake uniform to stick the text on some billboards along the street, in front of real and occasional audience members, for exploring how we can perform such actions mimetically, before everyone’s eyes, and for suggesting possible forms of public resistance and complicity. For this specific invitation at the IN SITU ACT days, I'm proposing a new version of the lecture, adapting the content to the web space. What I'm trying to do is opening questions, considering the web itself a public space, and shifting the meaning of the text from an analogue condition to a digital one.
"Will you marry me?" has received an aid by the IN SITU network, in the frame of the ACT project, co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.
