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City Comparatives: The Bridges of Rotterdam

In this walk we walk through Rotterdam, along the river, stopping at each bridge fish to listen, then to reflect on the differences we can hear compared to the other bridges.

The repetition of the bridge form allows us to more acutely sense the contrast between each of them, to experience and appreciate them more directly.

This walk began life as a thought experiment by the author, attempting to recall in good detail a walk along the River Lagan in his home in Belfast, while in lockdown in Holland.

It is hoped that this walk will serve as initiation of a continued practice of comparative walks.

Further info email bridges@johnhill.eu

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2020-09-20 10:00
2020-09-20 10:00
2020-09-20 10:00

Van Brienenoordbrug, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Van Brienenoordbrug, Rotterdam, Netherlands Van Brienenoordbrug, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Van Brienenoordbrug, Rotterdam, Netherlands

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hybrid flaneur/flaneuse

Hybrid flaneur/flaneuse has become a performative “orchestrator” of steps and technologies – of sensory and emotional encounters. It is this oscillation between the poetic, the socio-technological, the geographical and the emotional that shifts the meaning of flanerie and walking in the 21st century. Hybrid flaneur/flaneuse can be also described in line with the cultural and aesthetic trajectories of the 20th century ambulatory practices. Therefore, a hybrid flaneur/flaneuse could be a creative merging of the romanticised view of early flaneur, the radical tactics and political implications of psychogeography and the performative/site-oriented elements of Fluxus and Land Art – all considered through a wide range of embodied media, social and geographical sensitivities.

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