Anna Witt has followed a group of young people in Leipzig while developing a manifesto for a potential youth movement. The young adults have spent several months realizing this project in close cooperation with the artist. In their conversations, they discuss their personal ideas of social utopias and are expressing their own feelings about the prevailing systems.

By questioning and deconstructing consisting norms and values of our society, they follow their ideas of these concepts and their meanings to articulate the youth movement’s inherent purpose. According to their own imagination and sensations, they translate their manifesto into physical forms of expression and performative interventions in the public space. This project has been developed with significant contribution by the group, not just as participants but as co-authors from the beginning and throughout the whole process. Utopian approaches are openly expressed without comment and provoke the viewers to take a position. Exploring authorship and hierarchies within participatory concepts play a particular role in Anna Witt’s artistic practice. In doing so, the artist creates fictional spaces to enable a certain distance when questioning society and one’s own positions in a playful way.