Shopping
Highlights
This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top (2 tracks)
This project comprises two self-performative sound-walks designed for shopping centers in Luxembourg, specifically Belle Étoile and Auchan, exploring the over-affirmative misuse of commercial spaces. Adaptable versions of these headphone-based pieces have also been created for shopping centers in Bergen, Brussels, Maastricht, and Kortrijk.
Walking in Supermarkets
Annemarie Lopez visits her local supermarket and reflects on unheroic everyday walking. Early in Robert Altman’s film The Long Goodbye, Elliott Gould’s detective Marlowe goes to the supermarket at three in the morning to buy food for his cat. Under humming fluorescent light, he saunters, squinting at shelves stacked with tins, trying to find his
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Riding the Staten Island Ferry, and Then Some
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Wood Mountain Walk, Day Eight
I woke up late this morning, feeling drained of energy despite my day off. I’ve been walking with leaden legs for two hours and I’m about halfway to Limerick. Highway 13 has a wide, flat paved shoulder and a gravel verge beside it that looks as if it’d be good for walking, but because it […]
The sound of money
The bank across the street has three cash machines. There is one outside and two inside. Often there is a line outside while the two inside are free. It always makes me wonder.There is a man living inside. He is homeless. His mattress is there and a...
