WALK 7: the line

Your Space Or Mine

The walk with Alisa Oleva explored the geometry of the city—the different points it connected into a line, and where it curved and bent.

Participants were invited to draw a line on the map and try to walk it, to find all the dead ends nearby and visit them. Where did straight streets start to bend, and where were they leading to? What happened when we walked back? What happened when we walked the same route over and over again? We started together at The CarWash in Shoreditch, 1 Quaker Street, London, E1 6SZ with some arrival exercises, and then went out into the streets to walk in lines and circles, to spot geometric forms in the urban environment around us, to walk back and forth, and to walk over and over.

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.

27.11.24

Words by BUILDHOLLYWOOD

Make a map of how you got here today.

As you walk try and find different shapes around you in the streets: circles, triangles, squares, etc.

Walk around this place and mirror different shapes you notice with your own body.

In groups of three move around the public space while keeping equal distance from each other.

Using tape measure and your own body as a measuring tool, take measurements of the street and its buildings.

Walk together following me through the streets as a line, holding onto a bright orange thread.

Become a human camera.

As we walk, add shapes, patterns and lines to the city with a piece of chalk.

Credits:
Collages: Neve Harrington
Photos: Timothy Maxymenko

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WALK 7: the line

27.11.24

Make a map of how you got here today.

As you walk try and find different shapes around you in the streets: circles, triangles, squares, etc.

Walk around this place and mirror different shapes you notice with your own body.

In groups of three move around the public space while keeping equal distance from each other.

Using tape measure and your own body as a measuring tool, take measurements of the street and its buildings.

Walk together following me through the streets as a line, holding onto a bright orange thread.

Become a human camera.

As we walk, add shapes, patterns and lines to the city with a piece of chalk.

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WALK 7: the line

27.11.24

Make a map of how you got here today.

As you walk try and find different shapes around you in the streets: circles, triangles, squares, etc.

Walk around this place and mirror different shapes you notice with your own body.

In groups of three move around the public space while keeping equal distance from each other.

Using tape measure and your own body as a measuring tool, take measurements of the street and its buildings.

Walk together following me through the streets as a line, holding onto a bright orange thread.

Become a human camera.

As we walk, add shapes, patterns and lines to the city with a piece of chalk.

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