In the dark side of night, space and movement are perceived differently. Sounds and signs are transformed into a map for a urban geography turned upside down. Envisionning night space as an other state of the city, the life, relations and new experiences. We look at mobility as a revealing sign of these states.

This is a creative interdisciplinary session gathering professionnals from Rome and Europe to invent, organize and stage a troll full-size event: afurtive migration through the night from center to periphery and back. This event will be site specific, and will be realized on the roman night on the 23rd/24th april 04.

Going from center to periphery by bus

It´s NOT a Tourbus!

It pretends being a regular bus.

We want it to be a seduction.

The bus cruises the streets, it has an unfamiliar number.

It stops at bus-stops where people are waiting.

Potential bus-passengers would ask: “Where are you going?” Answer: “I´m going […] until i´m getting further instructions. – Where do you want to go?” The controller hears this conversation; in the contract between the bus and the passenger, there is no final resolution. The controller radios in destinations close to those desired by the people entering the bus, and bounces that demands. Once they are on the bus, similar things happen as in the “special trip” of the 22nd of April. Also they hear the controllers messages to other buses, doing the same things in other areas – so they wonder, are these instructions for my bus or for another?