We engage in a performance of rehearsed social order on a daily basis where “the formal medium cannot be abstracted from the medium through which subjects experience themselves”. The aesthetic of everyday movement itself can be revolutionary. Today, much of the Arab world finds itself under more aggressive suppression where artistic expression has become a liability. Under authoritarian rule and a complete elimination of the public realm, what alternatives do citizens have to express opposition? How can they use their bodies in everyday acts of protest? In an interview with the New York Times, Chinese artist Han Bing encourages people to join his movement of walking cabbages or other appropriate vegetables as a form of protest. By re-envisioning an everyday act, the cabbage walkers turn performance into an anthropological concept focused on radicalising the public sphere. ‘[T]he freedom of bodies to move through space [i]s the very basis of political freedom’. In response to his call, I have decided to join the ranks of vegetable walkers with a watermelon, a symbol used in parts of the Arab world to describe something as a joke or a sham. Perhaps such a gesture can create a momentary schism in our political realities, or at the very least allude to a much-needed spatial imaginary.