Under the title 'What People Do for Money: Some Joint Ventures' international artists are working together with Zurich locals from different professional backgrounds. Around 30 new productions follow the format of the Joint Venture. Each of these artistic projects will be exhibited in three different ways: at a satellite venue, in a classical art institution and in the form of a film screened at the Pavillon of Reflections. For her project, Ceal Floyer chose to collaborate with a local translator, Lorenz Oehler. Starting with a banal English text, two interpreters (one male and one female) translated this text simultaneously at each other into French and Italian, respectively. The title of the work, Romance, is a play on Romance languages on the one hand, and a potentially failed romantic (or at least semantic) relationship on the other. First iterated as a performance at a University building, the work continues its life during the biennial as both an audio installation, to be experienced at the original performance site, and as a sculpture in one of the Manifesta institutional spaces - two empty translator booths which were initially utilized as props for the performance.