C.CRED - Walk,Talk,Eat,Talk Some More

The first of three events in C.CRED's Walk,Talk,Eat,Talk Some More project takes place this week in London's East End. Yesterday's preparatory event included reading & discussion of Deleuze and Guattari’s ‘Of the Refrain’ (in ‘A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia’).

Event #1 — London: Counter.Cartography Walk will take place tomorrow, Wed. - April 5, 2006. Here's the schedule:

3:30-11:30pm (although you can join at different stages through the program: 3pm, 6pm and 9pm).

3:30pm meet at Hackney Wick Station for info and drinks. 4:00 pm sharp, walk starts.
6:00pm stop for drinks and to pick up new walkers at Stratford Station.
6:30pm sharp, walk continues.
9:00pm, drinks at the Approach Tavern, Approach Road, Bethnal Green.

C.CRED writes: "NB! The walk has been extended from the original plans in the previous invite. You can still meet up with us for the second leg of the walk (6:00pm at Stratford Station as previously announced). However, the first leg of the walk, starts already at 3:30pm at Hackney Wick Station. The walking group will carry flag-like game pieces and place them in key locations along the walk where we stop for drinks and snacks and try to develop questions in relation to use and ownership, and the cultural and socio-political economies of space in the city, as an initial way to enter into a critical dialogue around various notions of "post-autonomy" (see http://www.postautonomy.co.uk for info and texts). You should be able to recognize us easily at each meeting place – we’ll be accompanied by a black dog with dreadlocks and caring bright blue Evident Use flags."

C.CRED describes the project as follows:

"Walk, Talk, Eat, Talk Some More is a multi-city, multi-day project in and between London, Philadelphia, Chicago, New York, Malmö, Portland, Stockholm, Tallinn, Berlin and San Francisco. The project is an experimental hybrid of similar work by Ccred & the 16 beavergroup (Counter Cartographies, Alt.Space), BASEKAMP & The Institute for Advanced Architecture (Evident Use), 0009 (platial) and the Bureau of Research into Post Autonomy.

The idea behind this series of events is to link a number of different cities in a critical dialogue around the very lose notion of "post-autonomy" and the more specific theme: how can we construct a practice in the discursive space of post-autonomy?

The program includes three interlinked components: a collective counter.cartography walk through our different contexts; an alt.space meal (supper, dinner, luncheon) taking place in our different cities and linking us through the questions we pose to one another; and a concluding discussion taking the form of a web-cast linking us in real-time dialogue."

Stay tuned for info on the next two events in the series...