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Congregation – a sound guided walk and audio composition
Congregation is a word I usually associate with Christianity: the congregation go to the church to celebrate mass. This was a different sort of congregation: a coming together of people carrying metallic balls through the streets of Macau. &...
The Japanese Interval Walk
The tours that I tend to write about tend to be about something. That is to say, they have a subject, a route, a way of navigating you along it and something to impart along the way. That's pretty standard. There is, however, another angle I haven't pa...
Make China Great Again Tour
The US has its MAGA movement, lead by their current president, which might be described as playing to a myth of national revival. I'm not interested here to what extent that is hyperbole, I simply want to start by noting how powerful a force it is. Sim...
Ways To Wander: Google the name…
I was on the lookout for tours to take and, coming up a blank in my local vicinity, I thought it better to take matters into my own hand. I looked in the book Ways To Wander which is a collection of proposals for walks, the majority of which come from ...
The Beijing Tour of All Tours: Video Documentation
There is not a great deal of video documentation of The Tour of All Tours: you had to be there to see it, basically. But, over time, some bits and pieces do come together and this is one of those. This video was made for the exhibition On Ho...
An Aquatic Themed Tour of Reclamation Street, Hong Kong
Reclamation Street on the Kowloon Peninsula is built on land extended into the sea and runs about one mile north to south. This performance involved walking from the southern end of the street to the northern end of it obeying one basic rule. Thi...

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