Walking Definitions
An attempt to perform a live, participatory dictionary of things happening on the streets
In a lively urban place, a team of street dictionarists uses the power of observation, their bodies and their words to reflect what is there and what is happening around them. Their desire is to build a live, ephemeral and collective dictionary of life’s transience. With their own language, ‘the language of definitions’, they capture the present of a place and are nourished by whoever happens to wander nearby. The world is seen through an auditory and unpredictable dictionary that can provoke smiles, reflections, doubts, questions, tenderness and new points of view.
A definition by Eléctrico 28 is a short sequel of words being discharged reflecting on the nature of things with a register that looks for simplicity, evidence and an extraordinary perspective.
Walking Definitions aims to infect audience and passers-by of the poetics of daily life through the game of observing, feeling and inventing definitions, all together.
“A bar terrace is a gathering of tables and chairs living in sisterhood”.
Walking definitions cannot be categorized as a play or show. We prefer to define it as a real time intervention. The project can work in any lively context, as long as the performers and the audience have the freedom to move around the place to relate to their surroundings physically and to interact with other people spontaneously.
“A playground is a fenced-off piece of land designed for playing with things that don’t fit in flats.”
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06 Sep 24
Walking Definitions
Farout Festival
Milano, Italy
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04 Sep 24
05 Sep 24Walking Definitions
Periferico Festival
Modena, Italy
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08 Sep 23
09 Sep 23Walking Definitions
FiraTàrrega
Tàrrega, Catalonia
