SPARKLING WALK (2014-22)
Uncork a bottle of Champagne (i), Drop the muselet (r) on the floor and step on it. Compare the flattened wire with a map of the city you’re in. Follow the path of the muselet and empty the bottle of champagne while walking. Pay close attention to the surroundings, and enter all cultural spaces (and open doors) you encounter on your way.
(1): or Cava, or Prosecco
(r): A muselet (French: [myz.le]) is a wire cage that fits over the cork of a bottle of champagne, sparkling wine or beer to prevent the cork from emerging under the pressure of the carbonated contents. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muselet)
SPARKLING WALK.r (2022)
This new version of Sparkling Walk was commissioned by Sentier @ BXL and was adapted to the war times we live in. The champagne glasses were altered for the occasion and marked with a Russian swear word. The participants could to bring 100 Hryvnia (Ukrainian currency equivalent of 3.14 €) to acquire the champagne glass and they could sharpen their Russian language skills.
Сволочь, Мочи перхоти, Развалюха, Жопа, Гавно, лох, Гандон, Ублюдок, Чушь собачья, срать, чертовски дн, Лошадь мочи, уй, Трахни тебя, Ти дегхенераат, Отыебис от мены, су́ка, Пизда́, муда́к, блядь, Пиздец.
(photo’s by Elisabeth Lebailly)
EGGWALK (2014)
eggWalk could be considered a solitary game where the player (draftsman f/m/x) takes place in public space. The drawing is made by pencil on a (preferably white) chicken egg. While watching and counting the passerby, the drawer starts carefully marking (i) the egg. She/he follows a preexisting set of rules.
// Start at a midpoint (r) of the surface of the egg.
// Start with a parallel double vertical line (z).
// female (h): right or up
// male (b): left or down
// couple (D): a long (f) perpendicular line that gives you the opportunity to fork out and choose a new direction
Various Artists.MAQCIN, eggWalk, 2014
// child (k): a short perpendicular line that crosses the last streak. From there you can decide a new direction at 45 degrees. Here you also erase the previous history.
// dog (p): end of game unless accompanied or followed by a child.
// end: the drawing concludes when touching a previous drawn line, unless it was ended by a dog.
One could assume that these drawings are executed by passerbys that unknowingly contribute.
(i): Preferably use a sharp H2 pencil that is sharpened regularly.
(r): An egg is an endless drawing surface. Any point is a midpoint.
(z): The length of your lines are not longer than the thickness of your pencil.
(h): Use your definition of a female person.
(b): Use your definition of a male person.
(D): Use your definition of a couple.
(f): The length of the line is double. Draw it as a T.
(k): Use your definition of a child.
(p): Everything that walks on four legs.
MATH WALKS (2013-14)
Walking from home to work and back, going trough a different route until all options (all streets of the municipality) are exhausted.
Various Artists.WARMAQ, Graphic Walk 1:Elsene/Ixelles, 2013
Various Artists.WARMAQ, We are the People, 2014
Peripherique.0 2014
Various Artists.BLFWAR