Podcast/mp3
walking without direction
A multi-sensory audio walk that invites you to embrace the detour in place of direction.
After the success of their interactive sound installation, the Society of Historic Sonic Happenings (SHSH) at the Up Close Festival 2019/2020, theater maker, Adrienne Kapstein, and sound designer, Bhurin Sead, are partnering again to create a unique sonic experience that celebrates listening as a radical act. In this audio walk, listening is a multi-sensory and meditative experience. It is a playful invitation to be present in your surroundings and embrace the detour in place of direction.
Audience Role
Active listener, participation invited in guided experience. Requested participation in extension - at the end of the walk, we invite you to photograph your feet at your destination, upload it to your Instagram page and tag it with #walkingwithoutdirection. If you do not have an Instagram account, you can send your photo and location to walkingwithoutdirection@gmail.com. As a solo experience and a global project, this collection of photos is a living record of all the people and places explored during this individually shared experience.
Ages: All ages
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About Up Close Projects
Up Close Projects is a collective of artists and educators whose work occurs in partnership with our communities, driven by engaging audiences of all ages and abilities in thought-provoking immersive civic experiences that are deeply connected to the multilayered histories of public space. United by our formative collaborations at some of NYC’s most iconic cultural hubs – Lincoln Center, the Brooklyn Navy Yard, Governor’s Island, and the Park Avenue Armory – with innovative artist collectives like Blue Man Group and Trusty Sidekick Theater Company – we share the mission of bringing neighbors together to experience their neighborhood in new ways.