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Thu 16 Jul, 6-8pm
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Where does it feel like home in this city? What is the walk home you remember really well? Can walking be a way of home-finding?
We will start together inside the gallery, engaging with some countermapping exercises and then go out into the neighbourhood, exploring various walking prompts that will invite us to look, feel and remember our connections to homes and places we carry with us and to the streets around us. We will engage with some writing, mapping and sensory exercises, working both in pairs and as a group as well as on our own. We will come back to the gallery for the closing of the walk.
This walk comes from Alisa’s ongoing exploration of walking and home-finding coming from her experience of migration to the UK at the age of 17. The walk is inviting people with experience of migration or from diasporic background or those self-identifying with any of that lived experience to attend.
This event is part of Backyard Biennial.
Alisa Oleva is a walking artist based in London who works within the spaces and streets of the city, exploring the politics of public space, how the city moves us and how we move it, urban choreography and urban archaeology, traces and surfaces, borders and inventories, intervals and silences, passages and cracks.
Walking! Power! Inclusion! is multi-disciplinary team of artists, curators and researchers brought together by the Centre for Public Engagement Practice in Arts and Humanities, to co-design and deliver inclusive public engagement. This collaborative project explores ideas of power, inclusion and conviviality, and our ability to live together despite difference. For the Backyard Biennial, Walking! Power! Inclusion! has programmed a series of walks and workshops that invite visitors, local residents, and diasporic communities to democratise storytelling in the city; confront the line between private and public space; use photography to shift narratives; and explore Whitechapel with curiosity, creativity and criticality. Project members include Manal Massahla, Saira Niazi, Alisa Oleva, Ella Parry-Davies, Lorna Powell, Clare Qualmann, and Morag Rose.
