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Goldenrod Transect

Christy Gast

Christy Gast

New York-based artist (United States) 
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High Line Entrance Gansevoort and Washington, 91 Gansevoort St, New York, NY 10014, USA

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Goldenrod Transect is a durational performance in which the artist carries a giant soft goldenrod sculpture along the High Line, inviting public interaction and sharing lessons from the many insect species that inhabit the plant.

Goldenrod Transect is a durational performative walk around a native plant found in several locations throughout the High Line, goldenrod. Gast brought her giant soft sculpture of a goldenrod, as a prop for educational, creative, and interactive collaboration with the public.

They met on the High Line at Gansevoort Street, and traveled to 16th Street. Gast unfurled a monumental goldenrod stalk and revealed lessons from the hundreds of insect species that call it home.

Goldenrod Transect is a performance commissioned for Cecilia Vicuña’s “Insectageddon” event on the High Line in New York, NY in September of 2021.

APA style reference

Gast, C. (2021). Goldenrod Transect. walk · listen · create. https://walklistencreate.org/walkingpiece/goldenrod-transect/
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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