Who owns the city? Who walks these streets?

As part of our Your Space Or Mine project, we have been collaborating with walking and performance artist Alisa Oleva, who has created a series of urban art walks over the past few years. In September, Alisa is heading to Cardiff to make a walk that responds to the city’s fabric and its paths.

Alisa says: “Bringing walks to new cities allows us to explore how differently each city was wired and what its streets could tell us if we walked them together — noticing, playing, asking, and listening. In Cardiff, I will spend time creating an art walk that I will lead, as well as working together with a local artist to lead a walk of their own, sharing two perspectives — that of a local and that of a visitor.”

In Cardiff, Alisa has invited local artist Beth Greenhalgh to create the second walk. Both walks will explore the secrets and whispers of the city and what we can discover if we look closely and slow down.

You are invited to join one walk or both. Free to attend and open to all who are curious to explore walking and the city in a playful, critical, thoughtful, and poetic way.

Saturday 26th WALK with Alisa Oleva

Walk with Beth Greenhalgh

A wet mirror traces the buildings behind. The streaks climb down the trees, touch lime, touch clay. Something happened here.

An invisible archive flowers, sways, and sends seeds off into the air around us, listening to the river as it remembers to forget. Something happened here.

An afternoon nap – sleepwalking through the city.

About Beth Greenhalgh

Beth Greenhalgh’s works often take the form of spontaneous experiments with body, movement, sound, and installation. The work is site-responsive, curiously exploring place, ritual, history, and uncertainty. Inner landscapes and intuitive explorations merge with these physical places. Conscious and unconscious thoughts become patterns for vibrant investigation and play. Nothing is ever definite, but things happen with reason.

Access information

The walks will take place on pavements and in public spaces in Cardiff, and the pace will be inclusive of all who attend. Each walk will last about 2 hours. There are toilet facilities at the start point. If you have any specific access requirements, need more information, or have any questions about this walk, please email alisaoleva@gmail.com, and we will do our best to help.

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