Week 2: Walking & Mapping

Francis Alÿs, Sometimes Making Something Leads to Nothing (Mexico City, 1997)

Francis Alÿs, The Greenline (Jerusalem, 2004)

Hamish Fulton




Richard Long, A Line Made by Walking (1967)


William Pope.L, The Great White Way, , 22 Miles, 9 Years, 1 Street (2001–2009)

Jin-me Yoon, As It Is Becoming (Seoul, Korea): Teum/Passages Through (2008)

Guy Debord / Situationist International (SI)

Dérive: “a mode of experimental behavior linked to the conditions of urban society: a technique of rapid passage through varied ambiances.” A an unplanned journey through a landscape, usually urban, in which participants drop their everyday relation and “let themselves be drawn by the attractions of the terrain and the encounters they find there.”

Lone Twin, Spiral (2007)

Vito Acconci, Blinks (1969)

Holding a camera, aimed away from me and ready to shoot, while walking a continuous line down a city street.

Try not to blink.

Each time I blink: snap a photo.

1. 18 steps.
2. 34 steps.
3. 20 steps.
4. 12 steps.
5. 8 steps.
6. 22 steps.
7. 7 steps.
8. 14 steps.
9. 26 steps.
10. 10 steps.
11. 56 steps.
12. 18 steps.