Promenades is the link between the Ellen Gallery in the McConnell Library Building and the SIGHTINGS exhibition cube in the Hall Building of Concordia’s downtown university campus. The walk from one site to the other lasts five minutes at the most.

Robert Walser’s famous essay The Walk unfolds as an iridescent prism of observations and connective thoughts on the occasion of a short walk through a city. We are asking artists, writers, and other contributors involved in SIGHTINGS, to develop for Promenades a seemingly ephemeral thought as it occurred to them during the making of the work on display.

These thoughts may be expressed in the form of a narrative tour, a performance, a short lecture, a reading. The only formal constraints are that the gathering begins at one of the two sites, and ends at the other, and that the Promenade last no longer than thirty minutes.

Promenades is a reoccurring format.

Second promenade

La calq
Friday February 12, 2016, 12 pm

Since January 14, several dancers’ bodies have been seen at work in the surrounding space of the SIGHTINGS exhibition cube. The incongruous presence of these dancing bodies within a public place questions the recognition of their labour and status as “producers.”

In order to provide a more direct understanding of La calq’s project, the performance scheduled at 12:30 on February 12 was preceded by a Promenade with contemporary dancer Stephen Thompson. On this occasion, we invited the public to join him for a choreographic walk from the Ellen Gallery to the SIGHTINGS space, while he discussed his practice and how it relates to the project presented.