Walking the Walk: The Artist As Flâneur
Border Crossings, Nov. Fall 2003, v. 22, no. 88, pp. 82-92
James Trainor discusses inspired works and definitions based on the basic art of walking. The label "flâneur" is originally based on Walter Benjamin's concept of observation of pedestrians in the city and how that person is in control of his/her individuality.
ITEM 2003.085 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
Man of the Crowd – Edgar Allen Poe
Re-enactment,2001 – Francis Alÿs
The Collector,1991-1992 – Francis Alÿs
Magnetic Shoes,1994 – Francis Alÿs
Wanderlust: A History of Walking,2000 – Rebecca Solnit
Proximity Piece,1970 – Vito Acconti
Streetwalking in the Metropolis: Women, the City and Modernity,2000 – Deborah Parsons
Following Piece,1969 – Vito Acconti
The Leak,1995 – Francis Alÿs
This Way Brouwn,1961 – Stanley Brouwn
Duration Pieces, early 1970's – Douglas Huebler
Upward Mobility,2002 – Alex Villar
Discours sur les passions de l'amour,1957 – Guy Debord
Street Haunting: A London Adventure – Virginia Woolf
Rape,1969 – Yoko Ono
Suite Venitienne,1980 – Sophie Calle
The Shadow (Detective),1981 – Sophie Calle
Nadja, 1928 – Andre Breton
Last Nights of Paris,1929 – Philippe Soupault
Catalysis I-IV,1970 – Adrian Piper
Out of Order, Out of Sight: Selected Writings in Meta-Art 1968-1992 – Adrian Piper
A Needle Woman,1999-2000 – Kimsooja
Tomkins Square Crawl,1991 – Wiliam Pope.L
The Great White Way,2001-ongoing – Wiliam Pope.L
Walter Benjamin
Charles Baudelaire