My friend Todd Shalom is running a kick-starter campaign to fund the third season of Elastic City’s conceptual and poetic walks. Take a look and support if you can!

“Started in May 2010, Elastic City commissions artists to give sensory, performative and ritualistic walks in New York City and beyond. Eventually, we’d like to expand to give walks in all parts of the world.

Some themes of past walks have included: making monuments with our bodies in response to existing public monuments; ridding space of bad luck and bringing forth good luck through the creation of new folk rituals; and sculpting visual and sound poems using found objects.

These are all experiential, participatory walks—as opposed to the ‘moving lecture’ model that defines fact-based walking tours. When you arrive at an Elastic City walk, you are welcomed as an active participant. The artist leading the walk offers you their lens, guidance and techniques to further the poetry in our relationships with each other and the surrounding environment.”