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2010

Instamatic #6 Prague

Jez Riley French

Jez Riley French

(United Kingdom) 
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Prague, Czechia
72 minutes
£5
Sound walk

In 2010 Jez Riley French visited Prague again for a few days….the few days turned into a week due to volcanic ash closing the airspace over Europe….he walked around Prague sometimes recording, sometimes not….just walking & listening & looking – for his own pleasure….on the eventual long coach journey back to the UK he listened back to the recordings & found them to have captured ‘something’….an evocative representation of the rich filigree of sounds that came & went on those walks….

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French, J. (2010). Instamatic #6 Prague. walk · listen · create. https://walklistencreate.org/walkingpiece/instamatic-6-prague/

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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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