Everybody

Drawing inspiration from Francois Truffaut's Fahrenheit 451, Everybody invites the curious 
and the critical to journey out of the city to consider their relationship to the state. In a series of events 
taking place in woodlands at the Bristol city limits, printed texts will be nailed to trees for people to read and 
engage with, alone or collectively.

Fahrenheit 451 closes in a woodland where enemies of the state -the book people- internalise one book each, 
repeating it aloud as they pace around their place of exile. This radical act keeps literature alive, in a culture 
that has rejected the dangerous ideas that exist beyond the constant flux of state-sanctioned media. The 'book 
people' use their body in a somewhat primitive way -the perfection of one ideal, the maintenance and
preservation of nothing but a concept.
For these events, symbolically removing ourselves from the commodification of urban life, we will explore issues 
surrounding citizenship and the power relations placed on bodies within a legal territory.