Book Presentation and DIY walk-on-paper – The City as Anthology: Movements at the Margins of Public Space
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09.03.2024
Mariken Overdijk
Join us for a book presentation by performance artist Mariken Overdijk, where her recently released publication “The City as Anthology: Movements at the Margins of Public Space” will be shared, along with a one-to-one performative experiment of DIY walk-on-paper.
The publication is about how bodies traverse the familiar surroundings of one's home or move along the familiar routes of everyday life, but also about the relation of bodies to the public space. On another level, the book shows what the meaning of artistic research can be. Research tells of experiments and experiences, collections and vistas gained by the researcher during the course of the research. The book stages research, wanders, interrogates, describes, draws, explores, and thus offers a series of choreographies of ordinary life. Through this, Overdijk makes clear that a work of art is not a one-time, singular event, but creates a possibility that, however minimal, changes lives forever.
Within her research works of Urban Choreography/Psychogeography, Overdijk designed a performative method, enticing passersby to give her a glimpse of a seemingly unspectacular ritual of the human body that gets up every day, time after time, to participate in the daily routine. Like an invisible choreography of what goes on behind the facades of the city. During the conversation, the descriptions of this route are followed as closely as possible with a pencil on paper and made visible by walking along in this way.
During the DIY event, you will be invited to go on a walk with another person, whom might be just a passer-by. A short script will be provided to introduce this walk-on-paper.