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Echoing Movements

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George Square, Glasgow, UK

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Collection · 7 items

Scores

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Sub-collection

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Sub-collection

urban

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In The Shadow, Sophie Calle asks her mother to hire a detective to follow her. The work contrasts his photographs with her own account, reversing observer and observed, and questioning identity through absence and surveillance.

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Echoing Movements follows the artist and friends as they mimic each other’s walks and follow passersby, set to echoing footsteps recorded in Hamilton Mausoleum, evoking themes of surveillance, repetition, and collective movement.

Echoing Movements is a performance/exercise that looks at the gap between an artist, its subjects, and its viewers, from the studio to the public domain.

According to the artist Bradley Davies, in an interview with Ellen Mueller, the work is a film that follows the artist (dressed in a hi-vis jacket) and a group of friends who take turns following one another and others passing by. Davies begins by following the walks of others, and gradually, he himself becomes the one being followed—his movements mimicked in a kind of conga line of walkers and followers.

The audio overlay consists of footsteps recorded by Davies and a friend inside the Hamilton Mausoleum, a site once known for having the longest echo in a man-made structure. The soundtrack builds to a crescendo of echoing footsteps, with each change in the person or direction being followed marked by a whistle. Toward the end, the footsteps take on the rhythm of a military march.

Overall, the film carries a sense of surveillance, as if viewed from a discreet distance—observing individuals as they move through space, tracing their paths, and studying their movements.

APA style reference

Davies, B. (2012). Echoing Movements. walk · listen · create. https://walklistencreate.org/walkingpiece/echoing-movements/
Submitted by: Dani Spadotto

pedestrian acts

By de Certeau: In “Walking in the City”, de Certeau conceives pedestrianism as a practice that is performed in the public space, whose architecture and behavioural habits substantially determine the way we walk. For de Certeau, the spatial order “organises an ensemble of possibilities (e.g. by a place in which one can move) and interdictions (e.g. by a wall that prevents one from going further)” and the walker “actualises some of these possibilities” by performing within its rules and limitations. “In that way,” says de Certeau, “he makes them exist as well as emerge.” Thus, pedestrians, as they walk conforming to the possibilities that are brought about by the spatial order of the city, constantly repeat and re-produce that spatial order, in a way ensuring its continuity. But, a pedestrian could also invent other possibilities. According to de Certeau, “the crossing, drifting away, or improvisation of walking privilege, transform or abandon spatial elements.” Hence, the pedestrians could, to a certain extent, elude the discipline of the spatial order of the city. Instead of repeating and re-producing the possibilities that are allowed, they can deviate, digress, drift away, depart, contravene, disrupt, subvert, or resist them. These acts, as he calls them, are pedestrian acts.

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