City within a city is a walk in Whitechapel led by artists/ academics, Manal Massalha & Clare Qualmann. We invite participants to engage with the traces and layers around us, slowing down and noticing the details, the juxtapositions between near and far. We will use photography to zoom in, highlight contrasts, focus together and open our eyes.

Starting and ending at Whitechapel gallery, there will be time to reflect and discuss together with the images we have gathered at the end of the walk.

The walk element of the session will last just over an hour and will move across the paved streets around Whitechapel at a slow pace with time to pause.
free – but please book via Whitechapel Gallery website.

Part of Walking! Power! Inclusion! a programme by a multi-disciplinary team of artists, curators and researchers brought together by the Centre for Public Engagement Practice in Arts and Humanities. This collaborative project explores ideas of power, inclusion and conviviality, and our ability to live together despite difference. For the Backyard Biennial, Walking! Power! Inclusion! has programmed a series of walks and workshops that invite visitors, local residents, and diasporic communities to democratise storytelling in the city; confront the line between private and public space; use photography to shift narratives; and explore Whitechapel with curiosity, creativity and criticality. Project members include Manal Massalha, Saira Niazi, Alisa Oleva, Ella Parry-Davies, Lorna Powell, Clare Qualmann, and Morag Rose.