A one-off performance on the rooftop of an apartment block in Basel, November 2025, while Artist in Residence at Kaserne. A collaboration with Ado and Comenius, made in response to their neon artwork.

In Basel, I wanted to meet people who could tell me something about borders. As an outsider looking into a city on the edge of France and Germany, governed by Switzerland's 'magic formula' of consensus democracy and cycles of referenda, I wondered how any of this shaped how people live together or negotiate each other.

I met cross-border commuters (grenzgänger/innen) who told me about the songs they listen to on the way home from work. I had a conversation about mandatory conscription with a seventeen year-old about to turn eighteen, spent time with two generations of ferrymen who told me about a life on the Rhine and met organisations supporting sex workers navigating the city's streets. I waited 42 minutes on hold to the media enquiries department at pharmaceutical company Roche and on the 43rd minute a voice said 'thank you for this invitation to be interviewed, but the answer is no'

From my studio window at Kaserne, every night I looked upon this neon on the roof of an apartment block by Ado and Comenius made by bringing together two song titles (| Drove All Night by Celine Dion and Thinking About You by Whitney Houston).

In collaboration with Ado and Comenius, and informed by all the people I had met in this place, I staged a performance response on the rooftop behind the neon at dusk in Basel.

A kind of linguistic game, two strangers meet on the rooftop - a border between the street and the sky - and complete each other's sentences. Given a series of prompts developed from the conversations I'd had with people in the city, each person takes turns to begin and to end, call and respond - two voices speaking as one.

Opinions, statements, dreams or fears coalesce and contradict - and different perspectives find a new structure.