Safety Measures

Postcards with instructions. 2006. Project for Protections, Kunsthaus Graz.

Visitors to the gallery are each given a card bearing the words Safety Measures on one side and a simple instruction written in both English and German on the reverse.

Smile at Everyone, Keep to the Edges, Drink Lots of Water, Carry A Weapon, Act Dumb.

The instructions which make up Safety Measures suggest modes, behaviours, tactics and systems for avoiding danger – some practical and common-sense; others mythical or bordering on desperate. Each instruction serves as a frame through which to view and encounter the world while at the same time playfully invitating the museum visitors to alter their behaviour once they leave the museum.