5 Tage einfach leben

Can a group of strangers live in harmony outside their comfort zone?

From November to December 2020, the artist went to the stations and city centres of Bern, Zurich and Basel carrying a wooden sign, looking for five brave people who would spend the first week of January 2021 in an alpine hut — to simply be and live.

Five people who had never met came along. The days revolved mainly around making fire and cooking; the group also painted and got to know each other as people bound to the warmth of the fire. Instead of a hot shower there was water from a frozen fountain and short dips in the icy Kalte Sense river.

The project was an experiment to show that, as a cohesive social body, harmonious life outside the comfort zone is possible.