2024

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Project funded by the Düsseldorf Art Commission stadt.raum.experimente 2024.



Project: Performance art experiment
Project progress:Paris, France;
                                  London, England;
                                  Düsseldorf, Germany

In contemporary cities, routes, time, and speed are increasingly arranged before movement even begins. Navigation apps suggest the fastest path, public transport is scheduled down to the minute, and commercial and pedestrian spaces constantly guide where to pause, pass through, and move on. Over time, faster choices become easier and more readily accepted, and speed gradually turns into the default standard by which action is judged as reasonable.

Since 2024, I have been developing Flâneur across different cities, inviting long-term local residents to lead a biomimetic turtle moving at a constant speed through the routes they know best in everyday life—crosswalks, commercial streets, residential areas, and parks. The turtle maintains the same pace throughout the action, without adjusting to crowds, traffic lights, or surrounding pedestrian flow.

When this constant slowness enters public spaces shaped by higher-speed movement, the movement patterns of others begin to shift. Some people walk around it, some slow down, and some briefly pause and wait. The normally smooth flow develops subtle deviations, yet the overall order does not stop; it continues by making local adjustments. It is through these small reorganizations that the speed usually hidden in the background begins to appear.

Flâneur is not only concerned with slowness itself, but with the way speed is organized, normalized, and repeated in the contemporary city. Through a simple but sustained action, the project brings the speed usually hidden in the background into the foreground. Perhaps the question is not only how fast we move, but why “faster” has come to feel like the only reasonable answer.
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我们常常认为，行走是一种有意识的行为。我们选择目的地，决定自己的速度，寻找最佳的路线。然而，在日常生活中，大部分行走其实只是为了按时到达某个地方。在这个过程中，我们加快脚步、放慢速度、改变方向、跟随他人，或者向一旁避让,身体不断随着当下的空间做出调整。

这些反应大多发生在我们察觉之前。交通灯约束了我们的步伐，人群引导前进的脚步。狭窄的人行道、经过的车辆以及时间的压力，都无时无刻不在影响着我们行走的方式。我们或许觉得自己是在自由移动，但我们的动作始终被周围的城市环境所塑造。从而在我们潜意识里构建一种看不见的规律和节奏.

项目《flâneur》是一件发生在城市公共空间中的行为实验项目。作品从十九世纪巴黎关于 flâneur 的一个城市意象出发：有人带着乌龟穿过街道和拱廊，让乌龟决定行走的速度。在当时，缓慢、无目的的行走可以被看作一种观看和体验城市的方式。但这种不受约束,“不配合”的周围环境行为和节奏在如今却显得格格不入。

自 2024 年起，我在巴黎、伦敦和杜塞尔多夫展开这一项目。我们邀请长期生活在当地的人，带着一只缓慢移动的仿生机器龟走过他们熟悉的日常路线,机器龟始终以固定、匀速的节奏向前移动。它不会因为人流变密而加快，不会因为商业街的节奏而改变方向，不会因为路人的目光而调整速度。

参与者带着这个固定节奏穿过不同场所，并在机器龟与周围环境之间不断调整自己。人流密集时，他们担心挡路；穿过路口时，他们感到时间压力；进入开阔区域后，身体又逐渐放松。乌龟保持不变，但变化又始终持续发生在参与者和周围人群之中。

《Flâneur》用这种反差为日常行走提供一个固定参照。参与者由此感受到，自己的步伐一直在配合空间的安排、他人的行动和社会对正常速度的期待。


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