The proposed curatorial project A Good Day? will contextualise 10 years of the practice of the internationally recognised contemporary visual artist Mare Tralla. It will be the culmination of Tralla's durational performative practice having designed, knitted and traded over 27,500 hats, cardigans, mittens, headbands, frisbees and pom-poms under the moniker of Natty Peeps. 

The proposed project will bring hands-on, lived experience of an artist-market trader adhering to the slow life movement yet rebelliously resisting the dominant neo-liberal paradigm. It will radicalise the identity of the craft business woman earned independently over 10 years from within the markets of London. It will chart the transmission of the production techniques belonging to the pre-capitalist artistic production such as traditional Estonian crafts alongside the transmission of techniques drawn from science, scholarship, entertainment, political activism and everyday life.

The notions of criticality and publicness are central to the proposed project. Starting with the question A Good Day? – which refers to the ubiquitous greeting amongst market stall owners Did you have a good day? – this project will become a pop-up agora temporarily set at the epicentre of the biennial art world. It will allow other questions to be raised echoing the twin functions of the Ancient Greek Agora as a political and a commercial space where the word agora derived from the two verbs "I shop" and "I speak in public".