A soundwalk along the Gowanus Canal through Carroll Gardens to Red Hook, Brooklyn. The Gowanus Canal was designated as an EPA Superfund site in 2010, and historically polluted areas along the site are undergoing remediation and redevelopment. Listening to all sounds in the environment brings us into contact with changes as they occur. “Extending our awareness as far as possible to include any and all sounds places one in the center of the environment, with presence and relationship to all that is going on” – Pauline Oliveros
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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.
Added by Bill Psarras
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