We Are All Cities: Electricities constitutes a series of participatory walking performances accompanied by objects and attached technologies into different sites of cities (Athens, Corfu). The work forms a participatory walking performance of 10 people (participants) provided with handheld light bulbs and wearable sound recorders. They walk together silently, developing a sensory attentiveness to the site (place). They walk with the hand-held light turning it on as visual sign of their instant memory/thought while they whispering it in their microphone. In this site-oriented work, people walk with a common object (light bulbs) together yet keeping their private zone (recording their memories), forming a silent evolving ritual of light, a poetic situation. The artist explores the poetics and politics of collective walking with an object as sensory, semiotic and performative extension of the body, the psyche and the mind.

Performance, 10 hand held light bulbs, 10 sound recorders, GPS data

Technical: HD video, colour, stereo sound, English subtitles

Year: 2018

Concept - Creation: Bill Psarras

Participants: 10 walkers (Corfu, CCS2018, Ionian University)

Documentation filming: Evangelos Bezevegkis

Photography documentation: Alkistis Pappa, Isidora Avraam 

Artwork: https://vimeo.com/308194959

The participatory site-oriented performance took place in Athens (March 2018) and Corfu (June 2018) as part of the artistic workshop ‘Site-Specific Arts’ of 2nd Corfu Summer School of Hybrid Arts, run by the artist (Greek & English).