Love Truck

A vehicle built for control and consumption, turned into a rolling manifesto of community.

At the end of June 2020, a group gathered to celebrate the start of summer and the end of the semester. The meeting point was an old military truck — a Saurer DM 2, a symbol of discipline, obedience and control, but also of consumption: of resources, fuel and road miles. That day, a vehicle that once carried weapons, goods and greed became something entirely new.

Together the group painted a large LOVE flag and fixed it to the side of the truck — a bright symbol of community, creativity and the love they wanted to live that day.

As part of “Drive through”, an exhibition on the road at the Viscosistadt site, the truck became a rolling manifesto. It drove through the streets to the hippie and rock sounds of the 1970s — an era of protest against war and consumer culture — and turned into the opposite of what it was built for. With the artist's grandfather, art students and a jukebox.