Public Intervention at Thessaloniki Pier

The five artists insert themselves in cheap plastic bags usually used by migrants and try to move. When they start to feel suffocated they look for a way out and are gradually released from their temporary residence. They start running straight to the sea, throwing their clothes away as if this is their last exit. But as soon as they reach the harbor pier, buckets of water are aggressively thrown at them, preventing them from falling into the water. They run again and again to hide in the bag, tired of this endless back and forth journey. When from being a subject, a man of the world, or a citizen of a country you become depersonalized and objectified; when the only way of survival is to constantly disappear, then it seems as Hannah Arendt writes, that the man who is nothing but a man immediately loses those qualities that allow other men to treat him as a fellow human being.