‘Where you long to be’ is a contemporary performance created by artists Christina Karagianni (performance) and Viki Steiri (sound-design & co-creation). It premiered in August 2026 as part of the Paradise Drift exhibition, organized by the Greek Ministry of Culture’s institution ‘All of Greece, One Culture’.

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The performance is a sonic and performative work structured around a series of staged episodes that explore the contemporary tourist experience. Drawing on material from tourism logos, advertising slogans, and promotional campaigns, it examines the dominant narratives that shape the touristic imagination of a place as a destination for escape, well-being, and “authentic” experiences. The performance investigates how, within the experience economy, authenticity is transformed into a promise, an image, and a consumable product.

The work unfolds through a hybrid interplay of sound sources and movement practices, in which pre-recorded found audio material, sonic reconstructions, live sound, voice, and spoken language coexist with repetitive, choreographed, and everyday movements. The encounter between these heterogeneous elements destabilises the notion of a singular and given authenticity, revealing it instead as a condition that is produced, performed, and continuously renegotiated.