RUN! RUN! RUN! Biennale 2018 #r3fest in exile in Paris: Dangerous Movements

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Zejun Yao ‘artisthlete’

dangerou Zejun Yao

Elisa Herrera Altamarino

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Véronique Chance

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James Steventon

dangerou Zejun Yao

Matti Tainio

Elisa Herrera Altamarino

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VĂŠronique Chance

Carali McCall

Abdelkader

Kai

Vybarr

VĂŠroniqu e Chance

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Reveries of

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Performance-lecture by Kai Syng Tan 2018 Nov 8 RUN! RUN! RUN! Biennale 2018 #r3fest in Exile University of Kent Paris School of Culture and Arts

Run I

Unfinish e d Thought s

1776-1778

flaneur

Situationists

Richard Long

Francis Alys

‘Western civilization was born with the promenade.

Walking is a sensitive, spiritual act’ - Alain Finkielkraut in Bremner 2007

Run II

Unfinish ed Acts

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flaneur Rousseau

Situationists

Richard Long

Francis Alys

flaneur Rousseau

Situationists

Richard Long

Francis Alys

(Gregg Whelan 2015) ‘RUNNING STUDIES’ EXISTING

CANON: running boom

Alan Turing

walking

Haruki Murakami

Run Lola Run

Evidence of human running since 2m years ago

On running + ageing

Leeds: seminar

Cardiff: live art, stadium

RDS R EF 2021, TEF

London: film screening

Running as empowerment and activist action: Free To Run, founded by Stephanie Case http://www.freetorun.org

http://www.freetorun.org

Run III

Dangero us Times

‘Humanity is heading for collapse’.

– Monika Büscher (in Tan and Southern, 2018)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=lnI6E7WiHNE

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2018/nov/05/stephen-fry-pronounces-the-death-ofclassical-liberalism-we-are-irrelevant-and-outdated-bystanders

‘It is paramount that WE – a sensible number – search for pathways that avoid collapse, and mobility art can do that’.

– Monika Büscher (in Tan and Southern, 2018)

Letter from BĂźscher to Tan (2018)

‘Jogging is about the management of the body. It has nothing to do with meditation’.

-- Alain Finklekraut, in Bremner 2007

‘Whenever things look worst, human beings run the most.

Running booms were reported during the Great Depression, the early 1970’s after the Vietnam war and after the September 11 attacks’ – Christopher McDougall, 2009, p.11

What do mobilities and the (end to the) freedom of movement mean today, amid our precarious situation?

What insights can art movements and how we (used to / could) move, reveal?

(What) Could ‘Running Studies’ contribute towards creative steps to re-imagine the world around us? In what ways could ‘running art-fully’ spark flights of thought for us to study ourselves?

(Have we as artists, researchers and runners been playing too safe?)

Run IV

Creative s t Running eps: Adrfts

Also available on https://vimeo.com/298670996

FB/I: @capicua_movlab

Active in Paris in the 1950’s, the Situationist International (SI) consists of artists, anarchists, Marxists, cultural revolutionaries, and critical theorists.

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Active in Paris in the 1950’s, the Situationist International (SI) consists of artists, anarchists, Marxists, cultural revolutionaries, and critical theorists.

FB/I: @capicua_movlab

They devised radical tactics to bring about a revolution of everyday life. The dĂŠrive, or drift, is a mode of playfulconstructive behaviour.

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They devised radical tactics to bring about a revolution of everyday life. The dĂŠrive, or drift, is a mode of playfulconstructive behaviour.

FB/I: @capicua_movlab

Producing transient passages through varied ambiences, the drifter creates narratives that are open, contingent, and shifting.

FB/I: @capicua_movlab

Cutting freely across urban space, the body gains a revolutionary perception of the city.

Run V

Creative s t e p s: Playing a child

‘Like a child that has not yet learnt to smile, restless as if I have no home to return to. […]

My mind is that of a fool – ignorant and stupid!

Other people have their reasons for their actions; I alone am foolish and crude’ -- Lao Tzu Tao Te Ching 500BCE

#antiadultrun (Kai Syng Tan with Alan Latham, 2015)

#antiadultrun (Kai Syng Tan with Alan Latham, 2015)

#antiadultrun (Kai Syng Tan with Alan Latham, 2015)

#antiadultrun (Kai Syng Tan with Alan Latham, 2015)

#antiadultrun (Kai Syng Tan with Alan Latham, 2015)

Run VI

Moveme nt?

Mobility ?

Mobility Art or #ArtMobs by participants of the Art & Mobilities Network Inaugural Symposium 2018. Lancaster University

Run VII

Dangero u Moveme s nts

#woolsockrunning ( Matti Tainio 2018)

#woolsockrunning ( Matti Tainio 2018)

#woolsockrunning ( Matti Tainio 2018)

#woolsockrunning ( Matti Tainio 2018)

Running up the Side of a Building (Carali McCall 2019)

Central St Martins, London

Canada House, Trafalgar Square, London

Man Walking Down the Side of a Building (Trisha Brown 1970)

Running up the Side of a Building (Carali McCall 2019)

Running up the Side of a Building (Carali McCall 2019)

Run VII

Dangerou

Messeng s ers

Dao = way, path, course; doctrine and discourse

The Only Running Footman (James Steventon 2017)

The Only Running Footman (James Steventon 2017)

Run IX

Unfit cri tics

‘Western civilization, in its best sense, was born with the promenade. Walking is a sensitive, spiritual act. [‌] Jogging has nothing to do with meditation.’ -- Alain Finklekraut, in Bremner 2007

‘Western civilization, in its best sense, was born with the promenade. Walking is a sensitive, spiritual act. […]

Jogging has nothing to do with meditation.’

-- Alain Finklekraut, in Bremner 2007

To invigorate literary mind, start moving literary feet.

Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might be.

– Joyce Carol Oates, 1999

‘Le jogging est-il de droite?’ '(Is jogging right-wing?)

Libération, 2007

‘Le jogging est-il de droite?’ '(Is jogging right-wing?)

Libération, 2007

‘Running has been vulgarized by the philosophizing elite because of its erroneously-received image of muscularity as right wing, but this is, as any runner will tell you, wrong; running is more about mindfulness than any other sport I know.

‘Le jogging est-il de droite?’ '(Is jogging right-wing?)

Libération, 2007

’When you run, you disentangle yourself from logical thinking, from efficiency thinking, from thinking for a purpose. There is an ongoing guerrilla of ideas going on in the mind and this unleashes quite extraordinary associations. It is thinking while in motion, which for me is thinking in its most purest form. All writers are long distance runners’.

Abdelkader Benali, 2012

‘I would never have believed that the New York City Marathon could make one weep. It’s a vision of Doomsday. […] They are all seeking death, the death from exhaustion […] there are too many of them and their message no longer has any meaning […] [It is] an obscure message about a super human and futile effort’.

Jean Baudrillard, 1989

‘I would never have believed that the New York City Marathon could make one weep. It’s a vision of Doomsday. […] They are all seeking death, the death from exhaustion […] there are too many of them and their message no longer has any meaning […] [It is] an obscure message about a super human and futile effort’.

Jean Baudrillard, 1989

‘Sceptics simply know not what they miss.

Those favouring a sedentary lifestyle inadvertently spend much of [their lives] in a slightly depressed mental state’.

Mike Stroud, 1999

Run X

The dan ger of no nmoveme nt; rever ies

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THE LANGUAGE OF MOVEMENT?

Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.

— Blaise Pascal, Pensées 142 1670.

We are soft and nimble when alive, firm and rigid when dead.

— Lao Zi, 500BCE Moving around meant that animals bumped into each other far more often, both literally and figuratively, which in turn enabled a greater web of potential interactions between species…

— biochemist Nick Lane, 2009.

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