Walkscapes: walking as an aesthetic practice by Francesco Careri

Author:Francesco Careri [Careri, Francesco]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Culicidae Architectural Press
Published: 2017-12-31T18:30:00+00:00

Notes for Anti Walk

1 The operation Grande Saison Dada had been announced in the magazine Littérature, 19, and was described the day following the visit in Comœdia of 15 April, in an article entitled Les Disciples de DADA à l’Église Saint-Julien-le Pauvre. The episode has been narrated by two of the participants: Andre Parinaud (ed.), Andre Breton - Entretiens, Gallimard, Paris 1952, and Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, Déjà jadis, René Juillard, Paris 1958. For further discussion: Michel Sanouillet, Dada à Paris, Jean-Jacques Pauvert, 1965; Georges Hugnet, L’Aventure Dada, Galerie de l’Institut, Paris, 1957. With the first visit, other excursions in the center of Paris were announced to the “Places that do not truly have any reason to exist”: the Louvre, the park of Buttes-Chaumont, the Gare Saint-Lazare, the Canal de l’Ourcq and Mont du Petit Cadenas (off the map). These excursions never took place, but they are described in the walks in the surrealistic novels of Louis Aragon and Andre Breton.

2 André Parinaud, André Breton…, op. cit. p. 48.

3 Here the reference is at the book Le mouvement by Etienne-Jules Marey edited in 1894 with the crono-photographic studies of human locomotion made in 1886. These are the photos that would inspire the Nu descendant an escalier of Duchamp and futuristic attempts to represent the dynamism of Balla’s paintings and Boccioni’s sculptures.

4 On the theme of flânerie see: Walter Benjamin, Die Wiederkher des Flâneurs, in Franz Hessel, Spazieren in Berlin, 1929; Walter Benjamin, Le Flâneur. Le Paris du Second Empire chez Baudelaire, in Charles Baudelaire: Ein Lyriker im Zeitalter des Hochkapitalismus, Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1969 (English version: Charles Baudelaire: a Lyric Poet in the Era of High Capitalism, NLB, London 1973); Jean-Hubert Martin, Dérives. Itineraires surréalistes, dérives et autres parcours, in Cartes et cartographie de la Terre, Centre George Pompidou, Paris 1980. Christel Hollevoet, Quand l’objet de l’art est la démarche, flânerie, dérive et autres deambulations, in Exposé, 2, Orléans 1995; Christel Hollevoet, Deambulation dans la ville, de la flânerie et la dérive a l’apprehension de l’espace urbain dans Fluxus et l’art conceptuel, in Parachute, 68, 1992 ; AA.VV., « Le visiteur » n°5, Printemps 2000; Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust. A history of walking, Viking Penguin, 2000; Rebecca Solnit, Walking and Thinking and Walking, in “Kunstforum, Aestettik des Reisens”, n° 136, 1997, pp.117-131; Thierry Davila, Marcher Creer, Editions du regard, Paris, 2002.

5 The operation had been announced in the magazine Littérature, 19, and was described the day following the visit in Comœdia of 15 April, in an article entitled “Les Disciples de DADA à l’Église Saint-Julien-le-Pauvre”. The episode has been narrated by two of the participants: André Parinaud (ed.), André Breton - Entretiens, Gallimard, Paris, 1952, and Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, Déjà jadis, René Juillard, Paris, 1958. For further discussion: Michel Sanouillet, Dada à Paris, Jean-Jacques Pauvert, 1965; Georges Hugnet, L’Aventure Dada, Galerie de l’Institut, Paris, 1957.

6 André Parinaud, André Breton…, op cit, pp. 53-54

7 André Breton, Manifeste du Surrealisme (1924), in Manifestes du Surréalisme, Pauvert, Paris 1962.

8 Louis Aragon, Le paysan de Paris, Gallimard, Paris 1926, p.

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