2016

Light Walks

in situ live performance

“combine 3 processes: walking, thinking and writing. However, the new thought is: walking through writing or writing through walking?”

artist’s notes (2016-2018)

“how much time can a thought trace made of chalk last?”

artist’s notes (2016-2018)

Concept

Following Walter Benjamin's famous description on the flaneur as someone who goes ‘botanising on the asphalt’ (1934) - the work accompanied by a light bulb and a chalk, brings forward an ephemeral and emotional imprint of poetry within site. The artist explores the poetics and politics of his method of walking with the object of light and chalk, highlighting aspects of senses, ritual, memory and city. Light Walks brings forward a walking-thinking-writing oscillation, an emerging ritual between the artist and the following public. The light bulb becomes a semiotic object of artist’s thought while chalk reveals a performative and haptic aspect of consciousness.

Description

Live walking performance open to the public, custom-made light bulb, white chalk

Technical: Full HD video documentation, 16:9, colour, stereo sound, single channel

Subtitling: English subtitles

Year: 2016

Credits

Concept – Performance – Creation: Bill Psarras

Documentation filming: Dimitris Dermousis

Photo documentation: N. Panagiotopoulou, N. Charitonidou, G. Besleme

Selected Exhibitions

The performance/work (22/9 and 2/10) was part of the OUT(TOPIAS): Performance and Public Space exhibition at The Benaki Museum (Pireos street, Athens)

Available

Artwork: https://vimeo.com/281848467

Performance teaser: https://vimeo.com/184488743