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Intervenções urbanas/Exercício para a cidade I – Silhuetas

Urban Interventions / Exercise for the City I – Silhouettes
Recife, State of Pernambuco, Brazil

Repetition

1 sub-collections · 8 items

Scores

Collection · 36 items

The Everyday

Collection · 48 items
Sub-collection

urban

Sub-collection · 112 items

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Trajets pendant un an d’une jeune fille du XVIe arrondissement

Trajects pendant un an d’une jeune fille du XVIe arrondissement maps one year of movements of a young woman studying political science, revealing a narrow triangular routine connecting her home, university, and piano teacher’s residence.

Paul-Henry Chombart de Lauwe
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Roadstains Projects

Michael x. Ryan’s Roadstain projects capture urban traces of stains on streets and sidewalks. Through large-scale wood reliefs and small drawings, he reimagines these marks, creating an archive of memory and place, sensitive to the built environment and human movement.

Michael x. Ryan
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Stand Erect

Benjamin Patterson’s Stand Erect (1961) exemplifies walking instructions as art, focusing on movement patterns. The participant becomes part of the artwork, while Patterson guides and controls the body, mediating between the actor and their physicality.

Benjamin Patterson
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Theatre Music

Theatre Music: Keep Walking Intently (1964) by Takehisa Kosugi, a Fluxus score, transforms the simple act of walking into focused, durational performance, highlighting individual and collective endurance while framing everyday movement as theatrical and meaningful.

Takehisa Kosugi

Repetition

1 sub-collections · 8 items

Scores

Collection · 36 items

The Everyday

Collection · 48 items
Sub-collection

urban

Sub-collection · 112 items

Related

Walking piece

Trajets pendant un an d’une jeune fille du XVIe arrondissement

Trajects pendant un an d’une jeune fille du XVIe arrondissement maps one year of movements of a young woman studying political science, revealing a narrow triangular routine connecting her home, university, and piano teacher’s residence.

Paul-Henry Chombart de Lauwe
Walking piece

Roadstains Projects

Michael x. Ryan’s Roadstain projects capture urban traces of stains on streets and sidewalks. Through large-scale wood reliefs and small drawings, he reimagines these marks, creating an archive of memory and place, sensitive to the built environment and human movement.

Michael x. Ryan
Walking piece

Stand Erect

Benjamin Patterson’s Stand Erect (1961) exemplifies walking instructions as art, focusing on movement patterns. The participant becomes part of the artwork, while Patterson guides and controls the body, mediating between the actor and their physicality.

Benjamin Patterson
Walking piece

Theatre Music

Theatre Music: Keep Walking Intently (1964) by Takehisa Kosugi, a Fluxus score, transforms the simple act of walking into focused, durational performance, highlighting individual and collective endurance while framing everyday movement as theatrical and meaningful.

Takehisa Kosugi
Walking piece
A participatory urban action by Paulo Bruscky invited the public to walk specific streets of Recife while reading any paper, shifting attention between page and city. On a sunny day, perception itself becomes the artwork—an exercise in seeing rather

Urban Interventions / Exercise for the City I – Silhouettes was a leaflet distributed throughout the city and also published in Jornal do Comércio, in which the artist invited people to walk through certain streets while looking at or reading any random piece of paper (Jacoppo Crivelli).

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a) Turn right after descending the Duarte Coelho Bridge toward the São Cristóvão Building (Rua da Aurora). While walking, read or keep your eyes on any piece of paper – a newspaper, a magazine, the invitation itself, etc. – until you reach the entrance to the building corridor. At that moment, take your eyes off what you were reading or looking at and continue the route (with your eyes open) to the other side of the building (Rua da União).
b) It is essential that it be a sunny day.
c) The experience may be repeated on one’s own initiative or by medical prescription.
d) The most important thing is knowing how to see, not to do.
e) For any comments, write to me:

Paulo Bruscky
P.O. Box 250 – Recife – PE
Recife / February / 1980

APA style reference

Bruscky, P. (1980). Intervenções urbanas/Exercício para a cidade I – Silhuetas. walk · listen · create. https://walklistencreate.org/walkingpiece/intervencoes-urbanas-exercicio-para-a-cidade-i-silhuetas/
Submitted by: Dani Spadotto

lonning, lonnin

Cumbrian dialect term for ‘lane’ – but a quite specific lane. Lonnings are usually about half a mile long, low level and often with a farm at the end. Many have specific names known only to the local villagers. Hence, Bluebottle Lonning, Lovers Lonning, Fat Lonning, Thin Lonning, Squeezy Gut Lonning or Dynamite Lonning. In the north-east the spelling is lonnin and seems to refer more to an alley than a country lane. The Scottish equivalent is ‘loan’.

Added by Alan Cleaver
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