I’m a Stranger (Ich bin ein Fremder / Ја сам Cтранац) is a creative experiment in charting and sharing personal journeys. On the one hand, the city is a site of meetings and exchanges, criss-crossing networks of personal routes and private maps. On the other hand, it is an environment where one can easily get lost among the boundless number of strangers occupying it. This tour allows participants a double experience and a dual role: first as a map-maker, recording their own path; then as a map-reader, following a stranger’s route and seeing the city through their eyes. The only rule is that you must reach the rendezvous point on time to meet “a stranger”. At the end of the tour participants share and reflect on their experiences.
I’m a Stranger/Ich bin ein Fremder was part of B_Tour Berlin, 8-10 August 2014, and (as I’m a Stranger/Ја cам Cтранац) B_Tour Belgrade, 26-28 September 2014. In 2015 we’re bringing it back to London and trying it in a few other cities…
For more on the development of I’m A Stranger, read our blogposts here and here.
the demolition project 