Tuesday, May 12, 2009

So...what actions???

I also keep coming back to the title: (UN)Folding Zagreb
What is it to unfold a place?
unfolding a map
unfolding into movement, flow, rhythms

I am not convinced that my reading contribution should be deCerteau. Although he discusses the movements of the body in the city, there is still an emphasis in the visual--in the looking at the bodies moving--over the felt body moving. Instead, I am considering bringing in Vivian Sobchack's writing on the body locating itself.
She refers to embodiment and phenomenology (which I sense is not exactly the direction we are wanting to go).
You can read from her book Carnal Thoughts: Embodiment and Moving Image Culture.

I will think on it further..

now...actions...

I am not sure I can predict what movements I would propose for the participants--other than to be there and decide then.
Otherwise, I find myself falling back to what I have tried out here in LA-but, perhaps, Zagreb asks for different actions.

And if not the flaneur--then, perhaps it is not about being wandering, but locating oneself, "knowing" where one wants to go
intention
stillness
placement
markings

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