Saturday, July 24, 2010

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

Monday, July 19, 2010

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