Pippa Bacca and Silvia Moro decided to create an art installation by hitchhiking throughout Europe and the Middle East in wedding dresses. They wrote:
Our dream is to hitch-hike across the war-torn areas of the Balkans and the Mediterranean – dressed as brides. That’s the only dress we’ll carry along - with all stains accumulated during the journey. We’ll visit artists and craftsmen along the way and stop at museums, foundations, cultural centres and youth clubs for the daily pacifist ritual/performance of personal hygiene and then interaction with the place, people, and their crafts.
Objectives
The goal is to explore and collect photographic and video evidences on the common Mediterranean culture. The expected route is through route is through North-Eastern Italy, Serbia, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Turkey, Lebanon, Palestine, Israel and Syria. At the end of the journey the dresses shall be exposed together with other evidences of the journey.
Pippa was raped and strangled to death in Turkey two weeks ago. The website archive for her journey still has an entry entitled, "Where are you, Pippa?", asking anyone who may have seen her to provide information on her whereabouts. Her sister said that people are asking her what Pippa was doing hitchhiking - the message there is "It is naive for a woman to think she will not be attacked." I feel it working in me, contributing to an underlying sense of anxiety. As I've gotten older, I've experienced a new feeling, too - looking back on my own experiences and realizing how lucky I am that it never happened to me. Like when Rachel Corrie was killed, I feel that this easily could have happened to me. When there was a "Take Back the Night" march here in Bloomsburg recently, I thought about going but ended up staying home. I have to admit that part of me didn't take it very seriously. I'm very sorry about that.
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