Let's Talk About Consent invites passersby into a shared moment of intimacy, right in the middle of a public space. The participatory installation revolves around one deceptively simple act: sitting down with a stranger and negotiating consent by placing stickers on each other’s bodies. How many? Where? Who decides? Together, the artist and participant navigate these micro-decisions, opening conversations that are both personal and political.

This project explores how private dialogue can evolve into public, intimate performance. Is it possible to put on stage intimacy? Can vulnerability be shared and seen without losing its strength? The installation challenges the boundaries between artist and audience, between private and public, inviting viewers not just to observe, but to engage, and to experience how these conversations can become part of daily life.

Let's Talk About Consent transforms everyday gestures into moments of collective reflection, creating space for critical dialogue about how we relate to each other in public, in art, and in life.

iAra Banchik Almasia is a scenographer and maker from Argentina whose work creates spaces for intimate, vulnerable conversations around taboo topics. She will complete her MA in Scenography at HKU in 2025. Her practice blurs the lines between performance, installation, and community engagement, using conversation as a political tool. Speaking, listening, and storytelling become acts of resistance. Her installations act as living archives of encounter, inviting audiences into collective vulnerability to co-create meaning.