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1985

The MassDress

The MassDress
Stændertorvet, Roskilde, Denmark

football

Collection · 5 items

industrial

Collection · 23 items

Television

Collection · 3 items
Sub-collection

urban

Sub-collection · 112 items

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John Cage's 1959 score, consisting of of a list of properties, a floor plan showing the placements of instruments and objects, three pages with a timeline (one minute each) with descriptions and pictographic notations of occurrence of events, and a list of notes "regarding some of the actions to be made in the order of occurrence.”

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Urban sound walk: A chorus of Footsteps

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Stijn Dickel

football

Collection · 5 items

industrial

Collection · 23 items

Television

Collection · 3 items
Sub-collection

urban

Sub-collection · 112 items

Related

Walking piece

House and Universe

In House and Universe, Mary Mattingly turns her possessions into bundled sculptures she moves through urban sites, revealing how personal consumption connects to global systems and reflecting on ecology, material life, and resistance to accumulation.

Mary Mattingly
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Walking on the Wall

Seven performers walk on a wall, parallel to the floor, hold by ropes and harnesses.

Trisha Brown
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Water Walk

John Cage's 1959 score, consisting of of a list of properties, a floor plan showing the placements of instruments and objects, three pages with a timeline (one minute each) with descriptions and pictographic notations of occurrence of events, and a list of notes "regarding some of the actions to be made in the order of occurrence.”

John Cage
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Urban sound walk: A chorus of Footsteps

[A Chorus of Footsteps](https://aifoon.org/en/onze-projecten/geluidsdrager) is an urban, immersive sound walk. Twenty walkers move through the city, collectively carrying a sound composition through speakers in backpacks.

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The MassDress is an experimental project using collective garments to foster rituals of togetherness, negotiation, and shared movement, creating social interactions that reflect and question individuality in everyday life.

It seems widely accepted that cooking and eating are important elements of our civilization. The connection between these human activities forms a fundamental platform for social and cultural phenomena.

However, it is a notable fact that individuals making up humanity at different times and around the world have behaved as distinct individuals, despite common patterns.

During this century, at least in the Western hemisphere, there has been a trend of cooking and eating separately. Situations like this represent the introduction of a collective garment, which departs from monotonous cultural construction.

This includes:
a) A television garment for viewers, involving watching TV;
b) A football garment for players;
c) An industrial factory garment, for 5 or more workers;
d) An urban garment, for between 5 and 10 million inhabitants;
e) A collective garment for ages 3 to 99;
f) A witness/victim garment, for more than 2 people;
g) A discussion garment, for fewer than 179 people;
h) A kitchen/dining garment, for 30 people, describing a circle of 45 meters with capes, tunics, long and short sleeves, pants, and stripes.

APA style reference

Andersen, E. (1985). The MassDress. walk · listen · create. https://walklistencreate.org/walkingpiece/the-massdress/
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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