WALK 4: words

Your Space Or Mine

The fourth walk with Alisa Oleva invited attendees to explore the presence of words and text in the urban space.

The outing explored the following questions: What is the city trying to tell you? How many words can you see around you? What is the message? Can we write a text together with the city and with our own footsteps? The group started at The CarWash with some arrival exercises and then went out into Shoreditch making an inventory of the street which included, reading the city out loud, decoding what it was trying to tell them and writing themselves into the streets with mark-making and word-making.

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

30.07.24

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.

Make an inventory of the place where you are. You have only five minutes to do that. Share your inventory with someone.

Listen to the city. As we walk in a group in silence, listen to the phrases and parts of conversations you hear, human or non human. What is the city telling you? You can write down/notate what you hear.

While we walk, take note of all the words you notice. When we finish I will give you a piece of paper to make a collage of all the words you found. What is the city trying to tell? You can put this into an envelope with your address and I will send it back to you next month.

Take a chalk. As we walk through the streets, write anything you would like to add to the city. What is your message?

credits:
collages: Jemima Yong
photos and videos: Timothy Maxymenko

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WALK 4: words

30.07.24

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.

Make an inventory of the place where you are. You have only five minutes to do that. Share your inventory with someone.

Listen to the city. As we walk in a group in silence, listen to the phrases and parts of conversations you hear, human or non human. What is the city telling you? You can write down/notate what you hear.

While we walk, take note of all the words you notice. When we finish I will give you a piece of paper to make a collage of all the words you found. What is the city trying to tell? You can put this into an envelope with your address and I will send it back to you next month.

Take a chalk. As we walk through the streets, write anything you would like to add to the city. What is your message?

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WALK 4: words

30.07.24

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.

Make an inventory of the place where you are. You have only five minutes to do that. Share your inventory with someone.

Listen to the city. As we walk in a group in silence, listen to the phrases and parts of conversations you hear, human or non human. What is the city telling you? You can write down/notate what you hear.

While we walk, take note of all the words you notice. When we finish I will give you a piece of paper to make a collage of all the words you found. What is the city trying to tell? You can put this into an envelope with your address and I will send it back to you next month.

Take a chalk. As we walk through the streets, write anything you would like to add to the city. What is your message?

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