Mindscape walk
Imagine a city as an imprint of human minds into a landscape. Somehow, there is everything we usually think about, fear, long for, run away from etc. From certain perspective, cityscape renders all these things tangible and visible, we can walk through and around them, observe, discover places we lost access to in our minds. To play this game, I'll take you from the Centre, through Periphery to a Place completely outside the city range. Hardly anyone bothers to do so these days. We usually use a kind of Transport to slip through uncomfortable Zones. We want to stay at Places and have completely forgotten about the importance of Passages. We even consider passages major bother and waste of time. Yet, it is passages that form our mental abilities. Life is a passage.Rules of the game:
Before setting out, participants should choose one (or two at max) triplet from the following list of expressions:
governing - obeying - escaping
limiting - allowing - pushing
exposing - passing - hiding
closing - ignoring - opening
sticking - flowing - springing
growing - balancing - decaying
spreading - transforming - dispersing
threatening - communicating - defending
giving - keeping - taking
emerging - occupying - disappearing
chaining - melting - breaking
penetrating - exchanging - sealing
supporting - leaning - leaving
The list is just a draft. Anyone can come up with her/his triplet to work with, I only suggest the structure should stay, i.e. it should be a triplet not a pair in the first place. Keep it for her/himself (not telling others) and look for according manifestations of the notion in the land/city/mind-scape during the walk. In order to be able to pay due attention to the surroundings, participants should limit speaking only to emergency cases all the way long. On the other hand, you should feel no limits in taking notes and pictures. The only limit is certain speed with which we need to keep moving on so as to reach our destination before it gets too dark.
limiting - allowing - pushing
exposing - passing - hiding
closing - ignoring - opening
sticking - flowing - springing
growing - balancing - decaying
spreading - transforming - dispersing
threatening - communicating - defending
giving - keeping - taking
emerging - occupying - disappearing
chaining - melting - breaking
penetrating - exchanging - sealing
supporting - leaning - leaving
We shall go from 50.090249, 14.400101 to 50.187288, 14.327719 and then catch a train back to Prague in Libcice (50.199967, 14.364035). To make the experience complete, we should also meet next day for couple of hours, and share personal observations, ideas, look at one another's pictures and what not.
Warning: The walk is pretty long and uncomfortable in many ways, but to put the point across, it can hardly be any shorter, and definitely not more comfortable.
Number of participants: 2-4
Price: voluntary
If interested, drop me a note. I will contact you and we'll arrange suitable time.
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