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the project and the result as a group was very sat-
isfying. About the performance, I was not really
comfortable with the idea of interacting with the
people, but once we were there, the feedback was
so positive and nutritive that we started believing in
the essence of our idea. We were so much more
confidents at the end, and we could notice of that
in people’s reaction. Max: I experienced the whole
process of realizing this piece as a very natural one.
We met, we discussed, we brainstormed, several
minds and thoughts came together and creat-
ed the final piece. For me, it was good to work in
a group, because group work is always about ne-
gotiating between different minds, wishes and de-
mands. So, it is from the very first beginning a very
social type of working, what is interesting for me,
especially nowadays. After we came up with the fi-
nal result, we met to realise the physical objects. The
situation on the street was firstly a little bit strange,
because, a doing a social work is a lot about social
skills and disposition to act in a new way. But after
a while, everybody was into doing it, and it really
felt good to see, strangers interacting with us. For
me, I didn’t have any expectations about the out-
come of this work, but finally it was astonishing and
really amazing, how randomly asked persons on
the street, while going out for shopping, or on the
way to work could connect with our question and
have a really good answer for the question: What
is change for you/ What should be changed? It’s
good to realize, that, out there, are persons like you,
dealing with questions like that. Nuria: For me, the
performance we did, at first was a little bit intrusive
for the people, and the way we did it was going
directly into the people asking for their opinion. But
then, when the people start to give us a good feed-
back about it, and wanting to participate, it was
better. The changes the people want, was also a
really interesting thing because sometimes, some of
the changes was little things in their lives, but other
ones were a big thing to change in the world. This
is something also about how people imagine the
change. Sagar: The final performance of our group
was a result of several changes in the process. The
idea itself began from the similarity that was visible in
the photographs selected by each member, which
was change. Hence, »CHANGE« became the work-
ing theme for the group. But the word was still vague
to be transformed into an art project and exhibited
in a limited number of days. We started researching
and exploring the topic individually to come up with
a suitable idea for the project. Gradually, the ideas
kept evolving and took a form of a public interven-
tion. But being in a new country and doing a pub-
lic intervention on the first few days of arrival was
challenging and something that I was personally
concerned about. There were thoughts about how
the project might go forward and if we were going
to receive a positive response from the public. But
when we started the intervention and asked people
to write down one thing that they would change if
they could, the public response was phenomenal.
A diverse range of ideas were collected at the end
of the day, which included political, environmental,
social, international concerns of the people. How-
ever, we faced several people who didn’t want to
participate and some even avoided talking. At the
end of the project, the main thing that changed
in me was the way I saw the people in Budapest.
Drifting through the city, doing a public interven-
tion, interacting with public and gathering different
ideas of people gave me a new insight of looking
at the people and the city. It provided an oppor-
tunity to know what’s inside people’s mind, which
broadened my knowledge and enhanced the ex-
perience of Budapest.