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During the
street performances, the audience is led on a journey through the
city, guided through a series of hidden views by an urban and nomadic
persona, who acts as a physical interface to the unseen.
The female character is characterized by her mobility and embodies
the qualities of the wireless signal, nomadic, transient and unseen.
These personae allude to the metaphoric power of wandering and draw
attention to various nomadic people and practices that fall out of
the margins of a more static, dominant culture. As a wanderer, drifter,
migrant and vagabond, the character, through her transience, inhabits
spaces improperly, that is to stay in one place.
The audience, led on this nomadic journey, is drawn into a borderline
action of observing a normally unseen and ephemeral view of public
and private space. Staged as a silent 'mise-en-scène' which
no offer of explanation, the audience participates in the production
of meaning through their observation and interpretation. The result
is a multi-layered reading of what is happening and what they are
seeing.
past performances
A limited number of participants are given some scanning and recording
devices and walk through the city with me. A small device is used
to capture images from surveillance cameras in the neighborhood during
the walk, images from shops, lobbies of flats, banks, restaurants,
etc. Although the intention is to record the live video feeds for
the purposes of plotting them on a map, there is equally very strong
social component where participants share and discuss what effect
these voyeuristic walks are having on them. These intimate experiences
become catalysts for conversations about how we perceive and inhabit
space, what is private, what is public, mapping, memory and issues
of control.
Online maps created from the walks are collages, intersections of
surveillance footage, images from the street, conversations and annotations.
past events
Radio 100 Walk - live street reportage
within Amsterdam. In collaboration with Radio 100
Impakt Walk - collaborative
mapping of Utrecht
Vooruit Walk - collaborative mapping of
Gent
Stuttgart Walk - collaborative walks about the invisible
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