What to some could have looked like a slighlty late celebraton of the
Holi spring festival was in fact a walk led by the artist Ruth Proctor.
Organized as a part of Whitechapel's London Open, her performance If the sky falls... explored back streets of the art gallery. Who could
have resisted this attractive neon, but non-toxic blue? A true delight to
every flâneur.
Though less
visible, but equally welcoming (attracted one anonymus passer-by wearing pink
t-shirt), Karen Mirza's Aesthetics of Resistance walk offered another
understanding of marking and unfolding Tower of Hamlets. Borrowing its title
from Peter Weiss's novel and revealing the historie(s) of few places and
people from the area, the walk, like the novel itself, suggested that meaning
lies in embracing resistance, no matter how intense the oppression, and that we
should rather look to art for new models of political action and social
understanding.
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Pictures by Piotr
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