WALK 12: in between

Your Space Or Mine

The final walk with Alisa Oleva invited participants to take notice of what hides between buildings, structures, names, folds and the bricks of the city.

Can you fit through that gap? Can you walk in between the people in the crowd as quickly as you can? Where are the places to hide in these streets? What marks does the city leave on its streets and on you? Is the air cold or warm and what does this neighbourhood smell like? The walk started at The CarWash with some arrival exercises and then participants went out into the streets to do an inventory of holes and cracks, experienced moving with and being moved by the people around them. They walked looking in between their fingers, trying to fit in and hide away, made a map of smells and a list of all the marks they found along the way.

WALK: our series of free monthly urban art walks, hosted by performance and walking artist Alisa Oleva is part of BUILDHOLLYWOOD’s Your Space Or Mine project.

12.05.25

Words by BUILDHOLLYWOOD

Make a map of how you got here today

Walk with someone. Have a conversation only using the words you see written around you as you walk

Tune in. Close your eyes. Try to listen to the sounds in between other sounds. What can you hear_ Then look around you trying to look in between – leaves, bushes, buildings, people. Observe the contours of those in between spaces and how they change

As we walk, look in between a hole in the sheet of paper. Or in between your fingers or the two palms of your hand. Crop your view – what do you see

In pairs, find five places for each other to look in between. Then five places for each other where to stand in between

As a group, we put a rubber band around ourselves and try to walk through the streets inside it. Then we get out of the band and keep carrying it holding the emptiness inside it

Make an inventory of all the things in between that you find in this place. Read those inventories to each other

Make a map of smells. As we walk, note down every smell you encounter

On a small piece of paper write a small message-offering to this place. Tie it somewhere here before we leave

Sonic response to the walk by Hannah Kemp-Welch

Credits:
Collage: Lam Jane
Sound piece: Hannah Kemp-Welch
Photos: Timothy Maxymenko

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