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Field Study, Parramatta Road

Mollie Rice

Mollie Rice

Artist. Researcher. Educator. (Australia) 
Copyright: Molly Wagner
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Studio Translation #1, Parramatta Road
497 Parramatta Road, Leichhardt, NSW 2040, Australia

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Field Study, Parramatta Road traces ten-thousand-step walks along the corridor, using active listening and drawing to capture a direct, site-specific engagement with the shifting sensory and spatial conditions of the urban environment.

Relating to the curatorial intention of the exhibition Navigation 4: Footsteps in the Corridor – which invites artists to rethink Parramatta Road through acts of movement, attention, and spatial engagement – Field Study, Parramatta Road by Mollie Rice can be understood as a form of site-specific work.

The piece “was created through a series of ten thousand-step walks along Parramatta Road, starting from a place of significance to the artist and ending in a new location, which is then explored through processes of active listening and the physical record of drawing,” emphasising the direct relationship between the work and the urban environment it engages with.

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Text available on the curator Nadia Odlum’s website.

Credits

Exhibition Navigation 4: Footsteps in the Corridor – curated and with catalogue essay by Nadia Odlum.
Photo documentation by Molly Wagner.

APA style reference

Rice, M. (2018). Field Study, Parramatta Road. walk · listen · create. https://walklistencreate.org/walkingpiece/field-study-parramatta-road/
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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