In the second iteration, a seemingly normal-looking act of a picnic turns into a performative assertion of a displaced body. The picnic bag turns into a repository of materials that vectors various aspects of the performer’s identity as a globalised body lost in transit. The accumulation of locations on the body of the migrant body that goes through cities and thus multiple grades of precariousness is brought forth in the performance that is set in the context of the Festival Against Racism at Frei University, Berlin.

For a migrant body, an act of picnic is an act of assertion, a claiming of belonging. In a city like Berlin that has an increasingly large migrant population, the act of gathering of non-white bodies in the public spaces and designated picnic areas is a methodical assertion that goes beyond the institutionalised and often patronising process of assimilation.