Salzburg is a town with very rich history and therefore crowded with tourists from all over the world. Everything became formed for tourism, streets have become overloaded with instructions: where to move, how, what to look at, where to take "the best" photograph, what food to eat, which music to listen. The city is covered with signs-for parking, taking photographs, smoking, etc. And it seems like tourists are hypnotized by them.

In the process of planning and realizing my trip from Serbia to Salzburg I have, for the first time, experienced all the usual travel difficulties and absurd problems with bureaucracy.

In my project "Yellow Line" I wanted to mix these experiences with my impression of tourism and tourists in the city. My idea was to use Salzburg's existing format of street signage and insert my own sign with absurd warnings. I placed three different signs:

-In front of Mozart's birth house I have placed the sign with the following text: "Forbidden to look at the second window from the left on the fourth flour".
-In front of the main Mozart's chocolate shop I have placed the sign with a massage: "Forbidden to touch Mozart's balls with dirty hands".
-At the big town square I have taped approximately 20m of yellow tape on the ground. At one end I have placed the sign, which said: "Forbidden to walk over the yellow line on Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays from 14-17h." ...

All the writings on the signs were on German (mother) language, therefore a lot of people "obeyed" them as the regular signs!

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2002. During the stay at International Academy of Fine Arts, class "Public Interventions", with a professor Alfredo Jaar; Salzburg, Austria