Few stretches of the England coast path are as storied as the 20 miles connecting the Kent towns of Deal, Dover and Folkestone. But far from living in the past, each community passed is cultivating a buzzy new reputation in the present day. Source: How art and ancient history collide on a hike through Deal,
Life is in the details. And this week’s column by Sarah Cook calls out many of those in our own backyard. It’s easy to get tunnel vision and want to just get from A to B. But Cook shows us, if you take your foot off the gas for a moment, and grab a local
Visitors to the Chinati Foundation’s special exhibition space this weekend will encounter an elevated 80-foot-long blue-green terracotta tile installation by abstract painter Sarah Crowner that they are invited to step up onto. Source: ‘A painting you can walk on’: Special exhibition by artist Sarah Crowner opens this weekend at the Chinati Foundation – The Big
The socially distanced, self-guided art exhibit featuring renowned and emerging Brooklyn artists opens the weekend of October 17 and 18.
Source: Arts Gowanus ArtWalk Brings 1.5 Miles of Art to Brooklyn Neighborhoods
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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