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Score #20 by Carol Maurer [score base: a £15 Amazon gift card; photo and score: Carol Maurer (2021); score text: [under the gaze of/amazon./imagine spaces/15/which ‘the human figures’ were like the ‘signs’/amidst the foot traffic/improving the b...
• Following on from ‘over borders #1’ (also available as a free download) we have curated a PDF collection of scores (photographic, text, graphic) that use the act of walking as a way to question the objectification of environments and the role of ‘stepping back’ from a human centric view of place.
Full of Noises is a self-guided soundwalk in the Village of East Hampton, created by sound artist Viv Corringham, that invites participants to explore local cultural sites through attentive listening. The walk, accessible via the Gesso app, begins at Guild Hall and continues through The Duck Pond and Clinton Academy, offering prompts to engage with the sounds and histories of each location.
• 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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