Are Riding Backwards
September 2024, at performing landscapes festival
Art Au Centre and Very Contemporary
performative walk
The performance All the King’s Horses Are Riding Backwards, lays path through the streets of Liege, with the intention of getting lost. The walk is initiated by a map that uses performative instructions (scores), that indicate other ways of moving through the city. Led by the Tourguide to Get Lost With, the performance relates to the Technique of the Dérive by the International Situationists. The scores constitute an autonomous structure, directing a walk and subverting the hegemonic spatial logics of the city and any habitual form of moving through it. This intervention invites participants to critically rethink their spatial relations and interactions within the urban fabric. How to follow a map that asks you to walk backwards?
Photos: Florine Lafontaine