A Manifesto for a New Walking Culture: ‘Dealing with the city’

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Wrights & Sites would like to acknowledge support from the Centre for Creative Enterprise and Participation, Dartington College of Arts, the University of Exeter and the University of Winchester.

Notes

(STEPHEN HODGE, SIMON PERSIGHETTI, PHIL SMITH AND CATHY TURNER) with contributions from RICHARD LAYZELL, BESS LOVEJOY, FIONA TEMPLETON and contemporaries of the Dada movement.

¹ See Tristan Tzara, Dada Manifesto 1918, originally read in the Salle Meise, Zürich, 23 March 1918 (1992 [1918]: 13): ‘DADA; every hierarchy and social equation established for values by our valets’.

² See Tzara (1992 [1918]: 13): ‘DADA; the abolition of prophets’.

³ A reference to Lautréamont's oft-quoted, pre-Surrealist statement from Maldoror (1868–1869): ‘As beautiful as the chance meeting on a dissecting table of a sewing machine and an umbrella.’

⁴ The rhyme goes as follows: How many miles to Babylon? Three score and ten. Can I get there by candlelight? Yes, and back again.

⁵ This text by Fiona Templeton was accompanied by a video extract of a research walk around Tbilisi (2005).

⁶ See Note 5, above.

⁷ See Tzara (1992 [1918]: 13): ‘DADA; the abolition of memory’.

⁸ This text by Richard Layzell was accompanied by a video extract of Walking in Circles (research in Wargrave, UK, 1999).

⁹ This text by Richard Layzell was accompanied by a video extract of Sense Walk (Project IS, Bristol, UK, 2005).

¹⁰ This text by Richard Layzell was accompanied by a video extract of Talking to Tania 1 (Skyros, Greece, 2004).

¹¹ See Tzara (1992 [1918]: 13): ‘DADA; the abolition of archaeology’.

¹² See http://www.planbperformance.net/dan/mapping.htm for further information.

¹³ This text by Fiona Templeton was accompanied by a video extract of a research walk around Tbilisi (2005).

¹⁴ See Tzara (1992 [1918]: 13): ‘DADA; the absolute and indiscutable belief in every god that is an immediate product of spontaneity’.

¹⁵ See Tzara (1992 [1918]: 13): ‘DADA; the abolition of the future’.

¹⁶ See Tzara (1992 [1918]: 13): ‘DADA; protest with the fists of one's whole being in destructive action’.

¹⁷ See Tzara (1992 [1918]: 13): ‘DADA; acquaintance with all the means hitherto rejected by the sexual prudishness of easy compromise and good manners’.

¹⁸ See Tzara (1992 [1918]: 13): ‘DADA; abolition of logic, dance of those who are incapable of creation’.

¹⁹ See Tzara (1992 [1918]: 13): ‘DADA; every object, all objects, feelings and obscurities, every apparition and the precise shock of parallel lines, are means for the battle of’.