Experiments in PI: Meeting People/Easy
Meeting People’ is an off-site mobile project which travels across cities and public spaces, cafes, shopping centres, cinemas, castles, train stations, streets, river fronts and markets!This project is a series of experiments in meeting the general public and engaging them in a private exchanges in a public place! It’s interesting what people will tell a complete stranger but won’t confess to those close to them!
Mistry wheels a wooden contraption-made especially for meeting people named the wheelie mobilie. The wheelie mobilie is a mobile vehicle made to help meet people. It has breaks, flip out desk with a depositing hole for questionnaires, fold out stool, pen holding holes & compartment for fortune cookies. It is constructed using manual screw drivers, colour coded screws & nuts. It is dis/assembled in any location.
The wheelie mobilie stations to unfold and reveals a flip down stool, a desk with pen holes and a container of fortune cookies! Here people are invited to answer a special questionnaire all about love and life.
The PI workshop equips the public with screw drivers and parts, under supervision they construct the wheelie mobilie and take it outside. They become the protagonists, creating intervention in the streets. They meet new people and ask them ask questions using the questionnaire.
The PI temporary community extends the invitation of meeting people to a group or up to 6 individuals at once. 5 one-legged red stools were made in 2 parts which are carried in a small side bag, they assembled on the spot . Small community sit filling in questionnaires exchanging stories, by a road side, at the top of a staircase, on a hill or outside a pizza parlour….
Durational versions of the experiments have an online presence and orange boxes plotted in public spaces to draw in the curious public, those that leave their details maybe invited to a meet Mistry& the Wheelie Mobilie by special invitation!
