Paul Gazzola & Nadia Cusimano in association with PlanB – PERFORMING MOBILITIES http://performingmobilities.mickdouglas.net Tue, 05 Jul 2016 10:43:28 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.7.2 http://performingmobilities.mickdouglas.net/wp-content/uploads/webFiles/cropped-PM_ico_02-32x32.jpg Paul Gazzola & Nadia Cusimano in association with PlanB – PERFORMING MOBILITIES http://performingmobilities.mickdouglas.net 32 32 TOWN CROSSINGS http://performingmobilities.mickdouglas.net/symposium/passages_mobile/town-crossings/ Sat, 12 Sep 2015 04:35:14 +0000 http://2015.performingmobilities.net/?post_type=passages_mobile&p=945 TOWN CROSSINGS is an experimental performance/mapping project that utilises gameplay as a civic and social strategy of engagement across the physical landscape. Highlighting movement and mobility as an inherent and fundamental actioning of the everyday, it exposes the transient nature of relationships that generate and form the daily spaces we operate in.

In 2015, a series of directed yet meandering cross-town journeys have continued to be generated by a play of exchange between one person (the player) and the response invoked by throwing a passer-by (the other players) a Frisbee. A GPS locator on the player records the winding pathways and accumulate as a series of mappings that make visible the meandering and haphazard nature of the overall trajectories – exposing the dynamics between the intended direction and the actual manifestation of each journey. Understanding that cartography is an attempt to fill geographic spaces with knowledge in a graphical form that we can communally understand, the exhibited maps reframe the hegemonic values granted to notions of efficient and economic trajectories of human activities across space and time.

As a light and flexible model, TOWN CROSSINGS encourages participation as an open and flexible apparatus, by valuing cultural production through non-economic exchange. The ability for anyone to participate allows for the constant propulsion of the mediating object. It is a fluid and open process, engaging with a strategy of performative acts as generative sites of social inclusion.

Sited in the everyday, TOWN CROSSINGS can also be seen as an evolving choreography of interpretation as it produces new engagements via each outing. Activated in the immediacy of the spaces, the instantly forming and dissolving of the participatory relationships that occur re-value play and playfulness in our society, and as a way to collectively produce and rethink new understandings of place.

]]> TOWN CROSSINGS is an experimental performance/mapping project that utilises gameplay as a civic and social strategy of engagement across the physical landscape. Highlighting movement and mobility as an inherent and fundamental actioning of the everyday, it exposes the transient nature of relationships that generate and form the daily spaces we operate in.

In 2015, a series of directed yet meandering cross-town journeys have continued to be generated by a play of exchange between one person (the player) and the response invoked by throwing a passer-by (the other players) a Frisbee. A GPS locator on the player records the winding pathways and accumulate as a series of mappings that make visible the meandering and haphazard nature of the overall trajectories – exposing the dynamics between the intended direction and the actual manifestation of each journey. Understanding that cartography is an attempt to fill geographic spaces with knowledge in a graphical form that we can communally understand, the exhibited maps reframe the hegemonic values granted to notions of efficient and economic trajectories of human activities across space and time.

As a light and flexible model, TOWN CROSSINGS encourages participation as an open and flexible apparatus, by valuing cultural production through non-economic exchange. The ability for anyone to participate allows for the constant propulsion of the mediating object. It is a fluid and open process, engaging with a strategy of performative acts as generative sites of social inclusion.

Sited in the everyday, TOWN CROSSINGS can also be seen as an evolving choreography of interpretation as it produces new engagements via each outing. Activated in the immediacy of the spaces, the instantly forming and dissolving of the participatory relationships that occur re-value play and playfulness in our society, and as a way to collectively produce and rethink new understandings of place.

]]> TOWN CROSSINGS http://performingmobilities.mickdouglas.net/symposium/traces_gallery/town-crossings/ Fri, 11 Sep 2015 04:38:15 +0000 http://2015.performingmobilities.net/?post_type=traces_gallery&p=947 Town Crossings is an experimental performance/mapping project that utilises gameplay as a civic and social strategy of engagement across the physical landscape. Highlighting movement and mobility as an inherent and fundamental actioning of the everyday, the project exposes the transient nature of relationships that generate and form the daily spaces we operate in.

In 2015, a series of directed yet meandering cross-town journeys were generated by a play of exchange between one person (the player) and the response invoked by throwing a passer-by (the other players) a Frisbee. A GPS marker on the player records the winding pathways, which accumulate as a series of mappings that make visible the meandering and haphazard nature of the overall trajectories – exposing the dynamics between the intended direction and the actual manifestation of each journey. Understanding that cartography is an attempt to fill geographic spaces with knowledge, in a graphical form that we can communally understand,  the exhibited maps reframe the hegemonic values granted to notions of efficient and economic trajectories of human activities across space and time.

As a light and flexible model, Town Crossings encourages participation as an open and flexible apparatus. Valuing cultural production through non-economic exchange. where the ability for anyone to participate allows for the constant propulsion of the mediating object, it is a fluid and open process, engaging with a strategy of performative acts as generative sites of social inclusion.

Sited in the everyday, Town Crossings can also be seen as an evolving choreography of interpretation, as it produces new engagements via each outing. Activated in the immediacy of the space, and the instantly forming and dissolving of the participatory relationships that occur, the project revalues play and playfulness in our society as a way to collectively produce and rethink new understandings of place.

 

]]> Town Crossings is an experimental performance/mapping project that utilises gameplay as a civic and social strategy of engagement across the physical landscape. Highlighting movement and mobility as an inherent and fundamental actioning of the everyday, the project exposes the transient nature of relationships that generate and form the daily spaces we operate in.

In 2015, a series of directed yet meandering cross-town journeys were generated by a play of exchange between one person (the player) and the response invoked by throwing a passer-by (the other players) a Frisbee. A GPS marker on the player records the winding pathways, which accumulate as a series of mappings that make visible the meandering and haphazard nature of the overall trajectories – exposing the dynamics between the intended direction and the actual manifestation of each journey. Understanding that cartography is an attempt to fill geographic spaces with knowledge, in a graphical form that we can communally understand,  the exhibited maps reframe the hegemonic values granted to notions of efficient and economic trajectories of human activities across space and time.

As a light and flexible model, Town Crossings encourages participation as an open and flexible apparatus. Valuing cultural production through non-economic exchange. where the ability for anyone to participate allows for the constant propulsion of the mediating object, it is a fluid and open process, engaging with a strategy of performative acts as generative sites of social inclusion.

Sited in the everyday, Town Crossings can also be seen as an evolving choreography of interpretation, as it produces new engagements via each outing. Activated in the immediacy of the space, and the instantly forming and dissolving of the participatory relationships that occur, the project revalues play and playfulness in our society as a way to collectively produce and rethink new understandings of place.

 

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