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Marina Abramović, Ai Weiwei, and 31 Other Artists Reveal Moving Childhood Memories in a New Book

Dream On Baby, a new book by curator Gesine Borcherdt collects the childhood memories of 33 artists from Ai Weiwei to Laurie Simmons. Source: Marina Abramović, Ai Weiwei, and 31 Other Artists Reveal Moving Childhood Memories in a New Book

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‘Rooftopping is my art form’: The death-defying couple who climb the world’s tallest skyscrapers

Skywalkers, a jaw-dropping Netflix documentary featuring Angela Nikolau and Ivan Beerkus, follows the “rooftoppers” as they risk their lives for art atop the world’s tallest buildings. Source: ‘Rooftopping is my art form’: The death-defying couple who climb the world’s tallest skyscrapers

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From Walls to Alleys: Walking Through San Francisco’s Iconic Street Art

San Francisco’s streets have been a canvas for artistic expression since the 1800s, playing an important role in the city’s history, culture, and politics. Source: From Walls to Alleys: Walking Through San Francisco’s Iconic Street Art

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Contest Winner Turns Bridge into the Longest Walking Art Gallery in South Korea

Their vision is of fushia metal ribbons winding between the piles of the bridge, offering multiple balconies for the hosting of art displays. Source: Contest Winner Turns Bridge into the Longest Walking Art Gallery in South Korea

Curated news 25 Jul, 2022

15 Best Walking Simulators

Walking simulators are an acquired taste, but newcomers to the genre or veterans looking for something new to play should check out these games.

Source: 15 Best Walking Simulators

Submitted by: Babak Fakhamzadeh

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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