Let's take a walk #11

Let's take a walk #11 took place Saturday July 24th in the Lower East Side in Manhattan.

Departing from the New Museum lobby http://www.newmuseum.org/zigzaging through the streets to arrive to the Sara D Roosevelt Park

http://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/saradroosevelt

on the way passing by the wonderful Freedman Alley. Hope you enjoyed the walk.

Where did you walk from?

Did you invite a friend, a lover, an enemy, a stranger?

Looking forward to seeing your footage, please send via http://dropbox.yousendit.com/MarieChristineKatz924487

Let's take a walk #10

Please join me, from anywhere in the world.

Let's take a walk.

Together, apart.

Saturday 24th at 12.30pm New York time

Let’s Take a Walk


Interactive Performance/Installation



Let’s Take a Walk uses the phenomenon of Twitter so that people all over the world can join in a “group walk.” 
On scheduled times, participants (located in various locations throughout the world) would receive “tweet” messages, providing a series 
of walking/viewing directions to follow my path through a specific site. Requesting that they film their journey, the various footage are then 
assembled into a video installation showing the experience of our group walking in different places but moving synchronized through the same footprints... recreating the blueprint of the landmark/institution I am walking on in that particular day.

So far, the project has included journeys I’ve guided in Strawberry Field, through the crowded streets of the New York City Marathon, Union Sq market during the holidays’ season and on Martin Luther King weekend I followed the route of the 1967 Peace March from Central Park to the United Nation and to mark the opening of the exhibition of Marina Abramović The artist is present Let's take a walk #6 took place around and in MOMA.

Exploring ideas of isolation and community, (calling to mind both

guided tour groups and flaneur wanderings), I’m also interested in conducting the walks as performances within the museum and other art/cultural public spaces to create a new context.

I hope that you will join me for the next walk.

Please contact me via mariechristine@mindspring.com and follow me on Twitter mcayer

Let's take a walk #10 took place today as part of the Distance Festival in London. http://www.fromadistance.co.uk
I selected to walk in the Grand Central Terminal at 9am EST festival attendees followed me in London at 2pm BST.
Did you?

Some of the many beautiful images from Let's Take a Walk # 9 at the Figment event. The performance will grow out of the experience of presenting it on Governors Island.I am developing it further and look forward to the next opportunity to share the experience.

I am delighted to let you know that Let’s take a walk is part of Distance,a week end of performance over distance based in London
You can be part of that walk in person in London or as always from a distance. http://www.fromadistance.co.uk/

I am receiving wonderful images and videos from everyone who participated in LTAW on Governors Island.
Looking forward to edit this walk's video.
The performance took some unexpected turns, and as in life, sometimes we wish we had sized the opportunities given to us at that moment and made stronger choices, however the experience has clarified some of the elements of the work. I am looking forward for the opportunity of doing Let's take a walk as a performance again.
With gratitude marie christine

Hello everyone

Let's take a walk #9 was conducted/Performed on Governors Island as part of the wonderful Figment Event

Thank you so much for everyone who came to do the actual walk and anyone who followed us via Twitter.
Please use http://dropbox.yousendit.com/MarieChristineKatz924487 to send me your footage.
A special thank to Justin Ahiyon on Drum (despite the GI Rangers) http://considerthesourcemusic.com/source/
and Lindsay Davis (the voice, movement & twitter master) http://lindspiration.blogspot.com/

For those of you who could not join me today, there is an added opportunity to do so on Saturday June 19th at 14 BST 9am EST
I am delighted to tell you that Let’s take a walk is part of Distance, a week end of performance over distance based in London
http://www.fromadistance.co.uk/
You can be part of that walk in person in London or as always from a distance

videotaped by A.Gerson, stopped by one of the GI ranger again