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Mantle

Alan Michelson

Alan Michelson

Artist, curator, writer, lecturer. (United States) 
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Capitol Square, Richmond, VA, USA

architecture

1 sub-collections · 76 items
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Indigenous or Aboriginal

Sub-collection · 35 items

land art

Collection · 24 items
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Monuments and Memorials

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The Vietnam Veterans Memorial in D.C., designed by Maya Lin, features two black granite walls set below ground and engraved with the names of the fallen. As visitors walk through, they see the names and service dates, their reflections merging with the inscriptions in a contemplative space.

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Most Serene Republics

Most Serene Republics (2007) is Edgar Heap of Birds’s Venice Biennale public art project memorializing Sioux warriors and children who died in Europe, using text-based signage to confront colonial histories and Indigenous displacement.

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Untitled

Untitled at Oliver Ranch adapts to the land's contours, with 30-inch square treads and risers varying in height from 3/8 inch to 17 inches. The design challenges balance, requiring focus on each step while offering a changing view of the landscape.

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Curated news

Walkways of the M50: John O’Reilly on making art from infrastructure 

John O’Reilly finds that the concrete walkways around the infamous motorway can be surprisingly atmospheric places Source: Walkways of the M50: John O’Reilly on making art from infrastructure 

architecture

1 sub-collections · 76 items
Sub-collection

Indigenous or Aboriginal

Sub-collection · 35 items

land art

Collection · 24 items
Sub-collection

Monuments and Memorials

Sub-collection · 8 items

Related

Walking piece

Vietnam Veterans Memorial

The Vietnam Veterans Memorial in D.C., designed by Maya Lin, features two black granite walls set below ground and engraved with the names of the fallen. As visitors walk through, they see the names and service dates, their reflections merging with the inscriptions in a contemplative space.

Maya Lin
Walking piece

Most Serene Republics

Most Serene Republics (2007) is Edgar Heap of Birds’s Venice Biennale public art project memorializing Sioux warriors and children who died in Europe, using text-based signage to confront colonial histories and Indigenous displacement.

Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds
Walking piece

Untitled

Untitled at Oliver Ranch adapts to the land's contours, with 30-inch square treads and risers varying in height from 3/8 inch to 17 inches. The design challenges balance, requiring focus on each step while offering a changing view of the landscape.

Bruce Nauman
Curated news

Walkways of the M50: John O’Reilly on making art from infrastructure 

John O’Reilly finds that the concrete walkways around the infamous motorway can be surprisingly atmospheric places Source: Walkways of the M50: John O’Reilly on making art from infrastructure 

Walking piece
Mantle is a permanent earthwork monument on Capitol Square honoring Virginia’s Native nations. Inspired by Powhatan’s Mantle, it invites visitors to walk a spiraling path of river stones surrounded by Indigenous plants, symbolizing Native culture.

Mantle is a large, permanent earthwork monument on historic Capitol Square honoring Virginia’s Native nations. Based on the spiral shell embroideries on the historic Powhatan’s Mantle (c. 1608), thought to represent the nations of his confederacy, Mantle invites visitors to move within the symbolic circle of American Indian culture, on a winding path paved with local river stones and landscaped with indigenous plants.

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Michelson, A. (2018). Mantle. walk · listen · create. https://walklistencreate.org/walkingpiece/mantle/
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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