Explore how places make us feel and how they move us
Join Open City for this site-sensing workshop — led by artist Alisa Oleva — where history and urban planning will be discovered through touch, listening and sensations
By using elements of parkour and low impact movements participants of this workshop — which is open to movers and city explorers of all levels — will explore the architecture of social housing in north London including Highgate New Town designed by Hungarian architect Peter Tábori and Lismore Circus in Gospel Oak through deep listening, mapping and playing.
Meet: 2pm am outside The Archway Tavern 1 Navigator Square, London N19 3TD. Near Archway tube station.. Workshop duration 2 hours. Tour ends in Gospel Oak. Cost £14.50 / £9.50 concessions. (students/unemployed/furloughed).
The event will go ahead in any weather so please dress accordingly, wear comfortable clothes and shoes and try to pack lightly and not have bags with you. Get in touch with Adrianna at tours@open-city.org.uk with any queries.
By buying this ticket you understand that participation involves inherent risks and that you will take suitable, and appropriate precautions to ensure your own safety, the protection of your own property. Throughout the tour you will mitigate risk where possible and by buying this ticket, you assume all related risks and voluntarily participate. Tickets are non refundable.
Meet the workshop leader…
Alisa Oleva is an artist working in the spaces of the city, exploring urban choreography and urban archaeology, traces and surfaces, borders and inventories, intervals and silences, passages and cracks. Alisa holds a BA and MA from The Courtauld Institute of Art and an MA in Performance from Goldsmiths. Her projects have manifested as a series of interactive situations, performances, movements scores, personal and intimate encounters and situations, parkour, walkshops, and audio walks. www.olevaalisa.com