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Critical Flânerie
I connect a critical feminist urban perspective on the works about flânerie and gaze by Walter Benjamin, Georg Simmel and Marcel Proust, with revisiting practices of walking and wandering in the city as proposed by Lucius Burckhardt, Michel de Certeau, and Tim Ingold. Taking this approach into the context of urban experiences of non-dominant bodies, I propose a “critical flânerie” as an emancipatory spatial practice to appropriate and queer the gaze on urban spaces and other bodies toward a reflected experiencing and documenting of who and what often remains invisible.
https://dock-basel.ch/veranstaltungen/von-insel-zu-insel
Images: Aylin Tschoepe, Basel 2021