[spectre] WalkSpace:Beirut-Venice at the 54th Venice Biennale of Art

[Conor McGarrigle]

ANNOUNCING


THESTATEOFMIND presents Conor McGarrigle's WalkSpace:Beirut-Venice at 
the 54th Venice Biennale of Art


  WalkSpace:Beirut-Venice invites the participant on a drift through 
Venice guided from Beirut and in Beirut guided from Venice.

The work involves two simultaneous dérives through the historic cities 
of Beirut and Venice, connected in real time to each other and to the world.

Two interconnected groups of participants will walk in each city, each 
receiving instruction and guidance from the other as they wander, get 
lost and explorethe psychogeographical ambiance of the city. The 
progress of each group will be broadcast as a live video stream via 
Bambuser, tracked in realtime on a map with Google latitude and tweeted, 
with followers having the option of giving instructions via twitter.

The object is not to create a finite discrete work but to create a 
peripatetic relational space which can evolve and respond to the 
situation, the desires of its participants and serendipity, with the 
work being created through the actions of its participants. The space is 
furthermore overlaid with a hybrid, networked space connecting both 
cities and augmenting each space with the absent presence of the other.

Working from a changing set of basic instructions such as 'describe what 
you see', 'follow that person', 'take the next left and then the first 
right' or the more loaded 'take me to the heart of the city' the two 
groups will walk in tandem each guiding the other, walking in Beirut as 
if in Venice and Venice as if in Beirut.

The project draws on early dérives carried out by the Situationists in 
Amsterdam and Strasbourg which connected groups in different parts of 
the cities with walkie talkies and Ralph Rumney's 1957 
Psychogeographical Map of Venice.

More Information

www.conormcgarrigle.com/venice.html

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