"Grant me my wish" is one of three video installations entitled Tre desideri (Three Wishes) that were initially conceived for Passaggi a Nord ? Ovest Festival in 1999, Biella, Italy. The installations were exhibited in prominent public spaces like the Communist Party headquarters, a Kindergarten and Town Hall. All three videos portrayed fish. They were placed in huge bathtubs. One fish was set in an idyllic tropic environment, the other struggled for its life in a dried out periodic lake waiting for the people to save her, the last one was expected to grant the wish that was being made. But what was the wish that ought to be granted? For the initial project a web page was set up for the public to write down their anonymous wishes, but it has turned out that the imagination of the people is very impoverished when it comes to wishing things. People wish for health, money and abstract happiness. They wish for thing that even they do not understand so how would the poor gold fish suppose to make sense out of confused minds. ?Grant me my wish!? is a video performance where the artist strikes a fish head-down on the white surface. A swinging light bulb and dim lighting emphasize the horror effect of the scene. The artist is extorting wishes out of a fish, repetitively torturing the dead corpse of the animal, which is in no position to be generous, not only because it is very dead, but because the artist has no idea what he actually wishes for. The wishes in uniform consumer oriented society have no focus, they are constantly distracted by other choices that are equally unimportant. This video is in all its terror actually quite ironic and at the end of the day also challenges the hypocritical moralism of animal protectors who find this conduct unacceptable and appalling. This is not to advocate ethical relativism, but only to mark that a dead fish cannot feel pain or grant wishes.