It’s a spring of flashing back to an era that popped. When the Pop Art of the late, great, one-of-a-kind genius Andy Warhol changed the world. Source: “Chasing Andy Warhol” theatrical walking tour brings story of late icon back to life – CBS New York
Vision is often regarded as first among the human senses, as our eyes are the way most of us come to know the world. However, vision has its limits. Australian Field Recordist, Lawrence English – check out his Songs of the Living recordings. Source: Listening to everything: How sound reveals an unseen world
Check out the latest community post from one of your neighbors. (The views expressed in this post are the author’s own.) Source: Mar 29 | “Rat In the Kitchen” NYC Art Walk Experience | New York City, NY Patch
What are the political potentials of listening? How does sound define the crossing of the territories of contemporaneity, of the differences in race, gender, social belonging? Salomé Voegelin continues her analysis on listening practices in her new book. Interview by Leandro Pisano
pedestrian acts
By de Certeau: In “Walking in the City”, de Certeau conceives pedestrianism as a practice that is performed in the public space, whose architecture and behavioural habits substantially determine the way we walk. For de Certeau, the spatial order “organises an ensemble of possibilities (e.g. by a place in which one can move) and interdictions (e.g. by a wall that prevents one from going further)” and the walker “actualises some of these possibilities” by performing within its rules and limitations. “In that way,” says de Certeau, “he makes them exist as well as emerge.” Thus, pedestrians, as they walk conforming to the possibilities that are brought about by the spatial order of the city, constantly repeat and re-produce that spatial order, in a way ensuring its continuity. But, a pedestrian could also invent other possibilities. According to de Certeau, “the crossing, drifting away, or improvisation of walking privilege, transform or abandon spatial elements.” Hence, the pedestrians could, to a certain extent, elude the discipline of the spatial order of the city. Instead of repeating and re-producing the possibilities that are allowed, they can deviate, digress, drift away, depart, contravene, disrupt, subvert, or resist them. These acts, as he calls them, are pedestrian acts.
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