YES. I WANT TO BE FREE.

The first poster campaign was rather coincidental. Due to the Covid pandemic, the cultural poster sites in Brugg were not being rented out and were therefore made available to the Zimmermannhaus. As an artist who has been passionately engaged with the conditions and hegemony of public space for many years, this suited her very well, and she developed a series of posters specifically for this purpose based on her manifesto of freedom of action. The partly emotional and thoroughly positive response to this campaign encouraged her to repeat the project after the pandemic in order to re-examine the impact and possibilities of the manifesto in public space.

Wiederkehr understands public space as a multitude of spaces with immeasurably complex interactions between forces, interests, zones and desires. A physical and immaterial place that only comes into being through antagonistic discourses and is subject to hegemonic, temporal, structural and many other aspects, constantly changing and needing to be redefined. Just as streets, squares and the way we navigate in and around them shape our everyday lives and habits, she also understands public space as a discursive place that should be used and shaped by everyone. As an artist, she critically examines how art should take place in public space. She finds socio-artistic approaches that take place at the level of participation and increasingly occupy public space misleading, as she sees public space primarily as a political space, a place of discourse and a place that is created through discourse. Identity arises through the relationship and friction with an "other" and is therefore never complete.  Democracy, and with it public space, arise when we abandon the idea of a society that can only function as a positive, social unit. It is therefore logical that she places her manifesto of freedom of action precisely where she believes that its content must be constantly renegotiated: in this complex yet existentially important public space.