In 2016 at Accademia di Belle Arti in L´Aquila, Stropkaiová engaged in a performance called Teach me how to open... The work was inspired by the belief that only through communication and mutual collaboration real progress can occur. Eclosed inside of a white cotton bag, silently holding an orange pen marker, she wrote from the inside of the bag a phrase: "Teach me how to open...", and waited for a response from the public. Soon enough a blue marker appeared on a canvas, writing from the outter side: "Ask someone right to help you.", and the conversation between me and the public started.

Over the course of one hour, nearly 20 phrases were written through white cotton canvas, in a search for the solution to the problem. The conversation was interrupted by an ornage colored phrase: "I can´t breathe", after which the bag was immidiately opened by the participants of the performance.

 

Leaded by Italo Zuffi

Ph.: Frames from the video by M. Ianni