According to Michel de Certeau the act of walking is connected to the urban system in terms of ennonciation: „The act of walking is to the urban system what the speech act is to language or to the statements uttered.“
Ceel Mogami de Haas and Florent Meng decide to stride along the city of Bucharest during 5 days inviting every day a new person to join them in a walk/talk. This walks, that all last for 6 hours and cover about 20 kilometers, are documented in various ways. The walk/talk project aims at producing new forms when the conventional tools turn out to be inadequate to capture everydayness.
cf. page sounds for the talk (mp3), or transcription (text)
Trop tôt, trop tard* | Too early, too late. Activating the present, now.
paralell event to BB4, Bucharest International Biennial for Contemporary Art, May 21-July 25 2010.
opening 12h on saturday May 29 in Rahova-Uranus, around CIAC and laBomba pojects, Calea Rahovei nr. 194 and street crossing Strada Sabinelor.
From 20th of May to 30th of May, 12 students from HEAD Geneva - installation department and work.master, contemporary art practices, Haute école d’art et de design, HEAD Genève, Switzerland - join Bucharest and work on site specific interventions around the housing area of Rahova-Uranus. The idea is to produce singular views on what the term of „Handlung“, as Felix Vogel makes it accessible for his concept on the public sphere in Bucharest, can mean in terms of an ephemeral art production.
