Hi, can we meet?

Yes

I would like to help.

This is not always easy. 

Are you ready?

Absolutely, it's time.

It takes courage to act. 

I have recognised that. 

We expose ourselves.

The clothing that protects us restricts our freedom of movement.

In the end, only what we move counts.

I took off my protection long ago.

We don't know what you are about.

You don't know that. 

In the big picture, we're on the same side.

Most people are.

And yet I am alone.

We create spaces.

We are on the front line. 

We produce content; we communicate in many languages.

We name the problems and we mobilise.

There are still so many missing pieces. We must not stop.

They won't understand you like that.

They will label us as extremes.

I can deal with that.

It's happened to many before us.

It has just begun. 

This time it will succeed.

Monika Truong is a sociologist, sinologist and theatre maker and works from Zurich along the ambivalences of our social norms. She stages participatory performances in the contradictory experiential space of small-town Swiss socialisation, Chinese-Vietnamese origins, academic training and independent work in the independent theatre scene. A recurring theme in her work is the consistent examination of the asymmetry of social possibilities and power relations as well as the testing of the potentials and limits of art.