The Places We Carry is a performance that first started at Austrian trainstations, such as Wien Hauptbahnhof and Wien Meidling. A character is carrying her colourful living room with her and setting it up on the platform. It begs the question, what places we carry with us when we are on the move. What traces do we leave behind?  What am I feeling when I travel? Are all journeys the same?

How are globalization and consumerism affecting the environment in which we travel and transit? Why are spaces of transit sometimes forcing us to move in a certain way when we could instead take advantage of the knowledge each different journey brings?

The statement of this project is that everybody moves and travels differently, whether you are a local, migrant, tourist… every person carries their own places with them (life stories, memories, experiences) and while in transit it might happen that we bring our places along with us. 

Spaces of transit should not be standardized based only on the needs of market and capital; but start recognizing the diversity in its users. Where are the emotions, colours, sensations, smells, music, and humani

The Places We Carry is an intervention at the Austrian train stations, for which a character carrying a potted plant, cushions, and a rug sets it up in space to create a welcoming place similar to a living room. A living room sometimes is the core of a house, is a point of connection; you can share it, you can receive guests, but at the same you can enjoy your personal time, you can feel comfortable and calm it. You can belong there.

The next step of the project, apart from carrying out this performance in more train ing the need of circulation and transit.