WALKING TOWARDS UTOPIA
27 September
15:00–16:30
Location: Survival Kit 16 Info Centre
The event will be held in English
Presentation on artistic walking-based practices by Trevor Davies
Davies will be reflecting on the act of walking as contemporary performative format which is more than ever a format which offers an alternative framing for research based critical site-based artist performance and interventions.
Originally created as a response to COVID, Metropolis Copenhagen has commissioned some 300 walk based performances and this mapping of the psychogeography of both urban and rural landscapes, the initiative has supported a change in site based work practices and generated programs at the interface of performance art and the landscape in a situation where we are all facing as to we might play a role in the need to take an ecological perspective and ecological stand in the context of these critical times.
Dedicated to the exploration of the of the urban, the Copenhagen Metropolis program has many links to Survival Kits methodology and ethos, and supports the continual research into site based and site related perspectives, thus opening up of new narratives and new potential of the city.
With a curatorial mantra for the next 4 years "from Metropolis to Ecopolis" Metropolis in now engaged in developing a Nordic Baltic network of artist platforms, artists residencies and institutions working at the interface of art and ecology.
Trevor Davies is the founding Artistic Director of Copenhagen International Theatre / Metropolis and has also acted as CEO for Copenhagen European Capital of Culture 1996 and as manager of the bid for Aarhus European Capital of Culture 2017.
Trevor Davies
www.metropolis.dk
The event takes place within the framework of the Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art’s 25th anniversary performative walk cycle “Time, Dawn or a Passing Train”, which from May to November invites participants to performative walks in the urban environment of Riga and Helsinki.