Modern Art Museum will present the legendary performance artist’s first museum show in China from October, including images of the walk and brand new works. Source: Marina Abramović to Revisit Great Wall Walk in Shanghai | News | Ocula
The Classic City is home to one of the most diverse, lively music scenes in the state of Georgia, and the Athens Music Walk of Fame has memorialized the bands Source: How to navigate downtown Athens using the Music Walk of Fame | Arts & Culture | redandblack.com
The Academy of Natural Sciences at Drexel University, located on the Ben Franklin Parkway, has launched a new walking art exhibition on the importance of watersheds in urban landscapes.
Source: Center City urban watershed education walking tour to launch
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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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