CALL ME (2020)

“Hello, I’m Marta Solinas and you’ve called Call Me, the most popular and at the same time most secret research project in the world.”

Call Me was a research project by performer Lucia Di Pietro on temporary disappearance. It was a performance and social research project that took place in the La Marina neighborhood and was carried out exclusively by appointment. It all began with a phone call: you could call the number found on different mysterious posters around the neighborhood and listen to the proposal for participation. You would follow some instructions and meet a person who was waiting for you, sitting in a bar or on a bench in a square. You would sit next to them without drawing attention from others and let yourself disappear from your life for a while. Call Me explored the possibility of leaving the spectator alone and designing their own temporary and voluntary disappearance.

Call Me took place between July and October 2020 in the La Marina neighborhood through encounters and questions such as: What superpower would you most like to have? What would you do if you could start over? or What did you expect from a first meeting with a stranger? inviting them and giving them the necessary clues to create their own disappearance.