Traceurs: an innovative public art project - exhibition
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Traceurs: an innovative public art project - exhibition 4 Jun - 21 Sep 2008 Start time: 10.00 End time: 18.00 |
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Chelsea Futurespace
Hepworth Court
Grosvenor Waterside Gatliff Road (off Ebury Bridge Road)
London
SW1 8QP
020 7514 7751
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| Website: | http://www.westminster.gov.uk/leisureandculture/artsandentertainment |
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City of Westminster
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| Cost: | Free |
| Age Range: | All |
| Artforms: |
 Visual Arts and Designer Makers
Dance
Film, Broadcast, Digital and New Media
Theatre, Drama and Live Art
Visual Arts and Designer Makers
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The final exhibition of an innovative arts project initiated by Westminster City Council runs at Chelsea Futurespace from 4th June to 22nd September 2008. |
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The project began in 2007 when the council’s Arts Service commissioned the high profile artist Layla Curtis to create an art work that explored the area of Mayfair in some way. She developed a project that looked at alternative ways of moving through the city with a focus on the discipline of parkour. Parkour is an urban activity whose aim is to move from one place to another (for example across roofs, over railings) as efficiently and quickly as possible, using the abilities of the human body. Practitioners are called traceurs (hence the project’s name); they are highly skilled and move around mostly undetected. Layla Curtis used heat-seeking cameras to record the routes traced by parkour practitioners as they moved through locations in Mayfair and elsewhere in Westminster and interacted with the buildings or obstacles in their path. She is one of the first people in the world to use this kind of technology for artistic purposes. Click in Traceurs Stage 1 to watch a 2 minute trailer: http://www.westminster.gov.uk/leisureandculture/artsandentertainment |
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