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Walking to Wapping/ Walking through Angels

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‘Walking to Wapping/Walking with Angels’, is a site-specific walk to Wapping, London in 2001, that offered a guided tour of the ‘passing places of angels’. The essay consists of photographic documentation of this walk accompanied by a written script. ‘Walking with Angels’ is a piece of performed writing that moved through London towards Wapping in three acts. The script is composed of specific three kinds of voice. First are the voices of critics and philosophers whose writing is angelic. Second are the descriptions of angelic works by artists. And third is the voice of the stage director, whose directions are placed strategically throughout the text to situate the reader in specific places. Fourth are the voices of the texts encountered in the city itself.

The walk took place on 21 April 2001.

Walking Backwards through Brassai

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‘Walking Backwards through Brassai: death, magic and love’, is a feminine rhetoric in the form of a guided walk that disrupts the curation of fine art, specially the Brassai exhibition that took place at the Hayward Gallery, London in 2001. Here I conducted a walk backwards through the exhibition, starting out and ending with Brassai’s photographs of graffiti. He collected these images under such headings as love, death and magic, and these were used as thematics for reading the city, first through intimate objects, then through a series of bars and secret brothels, and finally through the public streets of Paris at night. My wanderings through the gallery create a new network of connections between particular images of Paris made by Brassai in the 1930’s and writings of his contemporaries, and of more recent French writers and critics on architecture and space.

Who am we?

admin — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:45:17 +0000

‘Who am we?’ is an essay written for a talk on the work of Do-Ho Suh on the occasion of his solo show at the Serpentine Gallery, London, (2002).

The walk/talk took place in April 2002.

One t(w)o One

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‘One t(w)o One’ was written in relation to Tracey Emin’s solo show at the White Cube, London, (2001).

Déja Vu

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‘Déjà vu’, is an essay written for a talk on the work of Cristina Iglesias on the occasion of her solo show at the Whitechapel Gallery, London (2002).

The walk/talk took place in March 2003