A Manifesto for a New Walking Culture: ‘dealing with the city’

Notes

A manifesto for the active and creative pedestrian – envisioning a walking that is neither a functional necessity (to shops, to work) nor a passive appreciation of (or complaint about) the urban environment.

Artist / Author Wrights & Sites
Reference A0849
Date 2006
Journal Performance Research
Journal date June 2006
Journal page 115-122
Type Article

Keywords

Similar items

The Island Nation

Artist/Author: Christine Bacon | Reference: P4208 | ISBN: 978-1786820662 | Type: Publication

Based on real events, The Island Nation is a visceral, revelatory new play by Christine Bacon, artistic director of the pioneering human rights theatre company ice&fire.

Experiments in Listening

Artist/Author: Rajni Shah | Reference: P4203 | ISBN: 9781538144299 | Type: Publication

Through an exploration of both practice and theory, this book investigates the relationship between listening and the theatrical encounter in the context of Western theatre and performance. Rather than looking to the stage for a politics or ethics of performance, Rajni Shah asks what work needs to happen in order for the stage itself to appear, exploring some of the factors that might allow or prevent a group of individuals to gather together as an ‘audience’.

Chump Change

Editor: Aislinn Evans | Reference: P4183 | Type: Publication

Chump Change was produced by Aislinn Evans and features contributions by Stephen Pritchard, Raju Rage, Harry Josephine Giles, and Maz Murray (therightlube).

Gómez-Peña Unplugged: Texts on Live Art, Social Practice and Imaginary Activism (2008–2020)

Artist/Author: Guillermo Gómez-Peña | Editor: Emma Tramposch, Balitrónica Gómez, Elaine A. Peña, William Stark | Reference: P4170 | ISBN: 9780367219253 | Type: Publication

Gómez-Peña Unplugged is an anthology of recent and rewritten classic writings from Guillermo Gómez-Peña, a figure who stands alone as unique and ground-breaking in the history of performance art and as the artistic director of transdisciplinary performance troupe La Pocha Nostra.

Substanz No 6

Artist/Author: Adela Picón, Maricruz Peñaloza | Reference: A0893 | Type: ArticlePublication

Issue No 6 of Substanz featuring text by Adela Picón and Maricruz Peñaloza.

This performance arts issue is published on the occasion of Acción|MAD17-XIV Encuentro de Arte de Acción Madrid, November 2017.

Text in Spanish and English.

Kindly Donated for the Swiss Live Art Study Room Guide.

köppl/začek 1997-2007

Artist/Author: Jörg Köppl & Peter Začek | Reference: P4133 | ISBN: 978-3-905297-19-5 | Type: Publication

Text and photographic documentation of the work of Jörg Köppl and Peter Začek.

Kindly donated as part of the Swiss Live Art Study Room Guide.

Text in German.

Arts Funding, Austerity and the Big Society: Remaking the case for the arts?

Artist/Author: John Knell and Matthew Taylor | Reference: P1610 | Type: Publication

On making a case for arts subsidy in the face of austerity.

Live Art / Dead Art

Artist/Author: the right lube | Editor: a | Reference: P4101 | Type: Publication

A zine including a ‘critique’ and two ‘reviews of things we liked.