6:30 a.m. I arrived late because I wanted to carry everything with me, Graziella ( my future flatmate) was there waiting for me. we opened the left luggage lockers and took everithing with us.Alexander Platz
At 8:30 a.m. in Eberswalder the floor is ready so we go to Giorgio´s, few people came when we were not there, Giorgio is sleeping, he has just gone to bed.
We colocate everything, Gra takes out a shit and I finish cleaning the future bathroom.While I put my personal belongings Gra goes to the supermarket to buy some food. The breakfast is ready in the table. bread, coffee, ham Garziella doesn't want to have breakfast where the table is, by the road, so we move it.
The first thing we found is man that can not sell in his corner because we are there. he doesn´t say nothing, just come take his hidden things from the wall of the kiosk.
Finished breakfast a man came, he says he is an architektur photograph, he makes some pictures, I pose, is the only time I did it in all the day.
An artist came and speaks to me about what is public and what is private, he works in that.
the tram pass frecuently and the people watch us. A woman wanted to give us money, two euros, I say that I don´t need it, she doesn't understand.
We are just under the train railway.
A woman doesn't like
what we are doing, I don't understand why, we explained that it's a project and she said: no!
Some people think that this is a political reivindication, they search for some poster.
A dog came and putt its foot in my lap top, they doesn´t have problems to come in, it licks Graziella.
The people from here seem to be really adapted to everything, most of them don´t even look.
12:00 I meet Sebastian( who studies medizin in Italy). After talking, I ask him if he wants to come, he does, he takes out his shoes. He stay for a little with Gra and with me, he goes with the thermo he promises come back with hot tee.
Sara had arrived, she came for Graziella, a man gave us some drink: coco milkshake with ron.It also would be very helpfull. Sara takes us a photo. She spoke with Sebastian both study in the same city, Bolonia.
Alex(who lives in Lichtenberg) comes closer, he gives me to blanckets(*), which will be really helpfull. he said that he liked what was here and he wanted to particicpate.
I asked him to take out his shoes. he comes in. we just smoke a cigarette, he was worried about the cold and the plants, they could get frozen during the night -you could put them a plastic-.
Sara and Gracciela are leaving. I need to use cream for my hands.
14:30 p.m. It comes a little darker. I´m completely alone. Lots of unknown people have came closer and talked to me.But when we are more, more people are encouraged to come, when I am alone I see them embarrased, looking through a window.
My neighbour still comes sometimes.
I´ve noticed that when I make eye contact with some person, he usually turns around, but If I, as now, make eye contact followed by a smile, he comes and ask.
Today is really freezing.I´m trying to read, just by the table.
There is a man who prowls around, I feel in his face that he doesn´t like this...suddenly he takes my camera in his hands and asks me: -Wie viel kostet?- I say it´s not for selling so he goes, saying something about loosing things.
3:05 p.m. A man ( later I´ll know his name: Igor) gives me one euro. He came and asked me- if I give you an euro I could make you a photo, isn't it?- No you don't have to give any money just send it later to me, please. - he stills want to give me the coin, he makes the picture- later you can have a coffee!-. (*)
When I'm alone I think in the cold.
Some people ask me if I'm been paid, I said no, it's just an experiment.
A man says to me that once he had a dream in which he saw beds in the city, he was walking in the street seing beds.
Some people ask me if this is some kind of performance. I don´t know what to answer, I don´t need the word, but maybe for them could be reassuring. The normal question after what, is why.
15:38 p.m My neighbour comes back.
the worst thing are the sirens from ambulances.
15:47 p.m.I lie down on the carpet, while smoking, thinking.
15:57 p.m. Andrea, hare krishna, ex-priest. he was in south-america and know he is here working hard in the hard life, he said. he comes closer, he says that he likes this isle af peace in the city. He would come back later. Marta arrives. I stop trying to read.
16:24 p.m.Manuel, Dani ( from my residence) arrived they make some pictures, Andrea comes back, with a friend, he gave me a Buda postcard(*). We are playing Trivial Pursuit, it is Graziella´s.
17:10 p.m. Kerttu comes too. (sie wohnt bei mir).
17:37 p.m. We still playing, I think this is not anymore a bedroom, we are to many people, it´s just an impression. I brush my teeth.
17:55 p.m. Dani and Manu went out, also Andrea,his friend and Marta, I stay with Kerttu. I see some people running.
18:05 p.m. Sebastian comes back with warm Glühwein.(*)we are three now.
18:15 p.m. A man comes,doesn't say nothing, and gives me half packet of frikadellen(*).I eat them.
18:30 p.m. A young man (Ben)with a big hat and a big suitcase asks me if he can comes in. once he is with us he drinks Glüwein, lights a pair candles and plays saxofon, in my bedroom, that was exciting.
Sebastian, Kerttu and me are in the bed under my blankets because of the cold.Ben gave me a candle(*).
when somebody comes I have also the blankets that Alex gave me for them, when the feets are warm there is no problem.
18:50 p.m.Phillip doesn't understand what I'm doing, he says that television here is something of first necesity and I shoul have one. he speaks with me in spanish.
19:00 p.m. Sebastian discover a new way of looking the street, he lies down, looking upside down. Sebastian's flatmates come. Florian comes. They take pictures. Florian comes also under the blankets, he notices that there is warm.
19:25 p.m. We are three again, drinking glühwein. Matthias arrives( he comes often to the residence).Now we are four.
20:05 p.m.I saw a man( tall, thin, black dressed, not shaved) writing something, I didn't care. He comes in, with his big shoes, he throw to us the book (*)where he was writing. he doesn't say nothing,he goes, he was rude.
I can't understand what is written in the book but neither Matthias or Sebastian who are german. the book is called:
do you remember?
20:05 p.m. There is a man (the one who gave me that euro) who passes by for the third time in the day, I start thinking that he changes his route to comes here( he is the one who will come later with plastic glasses and wine).
20:25 p.m. I've lost control. We are ten people or more, some of them bring drinks, some doesn´t take out their shoes, we play musik in my lap top. I have to change the things from their original places, to save them, like the plants which where in the entry. drinking, talking...one man says:
-I think what you're doing here is art, o.k?but it's not a experiment because I live in the street every day.
-I explain to him, how I'm showing myself, through my things, through this rom that now is a mess. I say to him that maybe when he goes to sleep he hides himself under the blanket, and that's all. More people who live in the street have told me the same today, but I´m living in a room in the street.
I don't know what is this place at the moment. Sara is painting the nails to a palestinian who looks like jamaican.
11:40 p.m. When everything was calm, I was just with Graziella and Sebastian, I had a conversation with Tom(his dreamt flat in berlin would have been in the same crossing) , we where separated by the clothes horse.
what would hapen if everybody takes a piece of public space and makes it personal?-he asks me, I answer that it could became much more interesting, normaly the people goes from one place to another and doesn't care of what's between.
He says that when somebody has a cut, it needs skin to cure. He also thinks that my objects will be different when I carry them back home.different for me.
Actually, he was right.
12:00 Sebastian has gone. Haaron came, he stays here until I went to bed, I didn't recognize him, he lives in my residence, we just have seen eachother once, when he forgot his key and I let him mine. Claus came also, he is from Austria, he studies architecture, he wanted to stay but it was cold. I notice how the people stay longer they like to discover little details, as the photos or some book. he is discovering the toothbrush, while he is speaking.
A woman is really worried about me, she can't understand why will I sleep here. she asks why almost six times, she looks for cans and bottles. she scares me.
Somebody asks me about police, they haven't said nothing. I hope they let me sleep. they ask me if I have a permiss
Everybody goes, Haaron makes photos, Gra and I tidy up a little, she packs me and she left me sleeping.
