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The participatory walk can radically reframe one’s everyday experience. The walk takes the poem off of the page, the performance off the stage, and translates it to the street. How does a photographer see the world? How does a choreographer move through space and what can they teach us? Each walk is a transitory performance that brings people together in unexpectedly beautiful ways.

Elastic City: Prompts for Participatory Walks is a new book that includes instructions (aka prompts) from more than 35 artists' walks along with a section that features the insights and philosophy of EC Founder Todd Shalom, who spent 15 years presenting and refining walks. The section, titled 'Creating Your Own Walk,' covers conceptual, narrative and logistical concerns, how to encourage participation and how to best promote this work. Elastic City has fostered and grown the participatory walk form and is sharing its know-how for the first time here in writing. No other book like this exists.

The book features 48 prompts, walk ephemera, photos and contributions from an eclectic roster of visual, performance and text-based artists, including: Danya Abt, luciana achugar, Andrés Andreani, Anna Azrieli, Chiara Bernasconi, Juan Betancurth, James Bingham, Becca Blackwell, Michelle Boulé, Tania Bruguera & Mujeres en Movimiento, Isabella Bruno, Cristian Carracedo, Roz Chast, Kate Colby, Jon Cotner, Jose De Diego, Karen Finley, Neil Freeman, Cesar Gallegos, Kate Glicksberg, Anthony Goicolea, Neil Goldberg, Miguel Gutierrez, Michael Hart, Nisan Almog Haymian, Amélie Hoffmann, Riley Hooker, Matthew Jensen, Nina Katchadourian & Andrew Zarou, Wayne Koestenbaum, Amichai Lau Lavie & Shawn Shafner, Mimi Lien, Justin Liu, Erin Markey, Robert Mauksch, Eric McNatt, Gui Mohallem, William Morrisey, Santos Muñoz, Daniel Neumann, The Office of Recuperative Strategies (featuring Christian Hawkey & Rachel Levitsky), Okwui Okpokwasili, Asad Pervaiz, Jen Plaskowitz, Hayal Pozanti, Anne Percoco, Dudu Quintanilha, Nick Robles, Caitlin Ruttle, Gustavo Sámano, Sarah Schulman, Todd Shalom, Niegel Smith, Leandro Tartaglia, Andrea Williams, Kristin Geneve Young, and Pamela Z

Use this book as a tool for creating walks or other forms of participatory art. To watch the Kickstarter video for the book, click here.

Specs: Design: William Morrisey; 160 pages; 4 color; size: 4x7 inches (pocket-sized); edition: 777 copies; printed by: MAS Matbaa, Istanbul; ISBN: 978-0-578-46775-7


**SOLD OUT**

February 2020: We've sold out of the book. Meanwhile, the book is in a bunch of libraries listed here and also at the Live Art Development Agency in London and The Frances Mulhall Achilles Library at the Whitney Museum in New York. We've set aside a few copies for libraries who want to purchase the book. If that's you, please contact: todd@elastic-city.org

Download the English edition of the book:

**Click on this link for the hi-res PDF download of the English language book (22.5 MB).**

Elastic City: Caminatas Participativas
En esta edición argentina, vas a encontrar 48 instrucciones que fueron parte de la edición en inglés: Elastic City: Prompts for Participatory Walks, junto a propuestas de la caminata "Aquí, ayer, ahora", de Leandro Tartaglia, realizada el 20 de diciembre de 2012. Además, en esta edición hemos unido a las instrucciones con "caminatas visuales" hechas por lxs artistas Diego Bianchi, Eduardo (Dudu) Quintanilha, y Cecilia Szalkowicz.

INSTRUCCIONES: Amichai Lau-Lavie, Andrea Williams, Andrés Andreani, Andrew Zarou, Anna Azrieli, Anne Percoco, Becca Blackwell, Chiara Bernasconi, Christian Hawkey, Cristian Carracedo, Daniel Neumann, Erin Markey, Hayal Pozanti, Isabella Bruno, Jon Cotner, José de Diego, Karen Finley, Kate Colby, Kristin Geneve Young, Leandro Tartaglia, luciana achugar, Matthew Jensen, Miguel Gutierrez, Mimi Lien, Mujeres en Movimiento, Neil Freeman, Neil Goldberg, Niegel Smith, Nina Katchadourian, Nisan Almog Haymian, Okwui Okpokwasili, Pamela Z, Rachel Levitsky, Riley Hooker, Robert Mauksch, Sarah Schulman, Shawn Shafner, Tania Bruguera, Todd Shalom, Wayne Koestenbaum

CONCEPTO: Vanina Scolavino & Todd Shalom
PUBLICACIÓN: Vanina Scolavino
TRADUCCIÓN: Cecilia Pavón & Dani Zelko
POSPRODUCCIÓN DIGITAL: Martín Sichetti
CORRECCIÓN: Alicia Di Stasio & Mario Valledor

Cliquea en estos dos links para descargar la edición argentina del libro:

**Link 1** **Link 2**

Para pedidos dentro de los Estados Unidos, por favor envíe U$D 5 para el envío por PayPal. Asegúrese de incluir su dirección en la sección Notas.

Para pedidos fuera de los Estados Unidos, por favor contacte a una de las librerías a continuación. Si no quedan más ejemplares, envíe un correo electrónico a: todd@elastic-city.org

Por último, si está afiliado a una biblioteca o desea solicitar un ejemplar para su biblioteca, envíe un correo electrónico a: todd@elastic-city.org

Librerías:

Barcelona, España:
Hangar

Buenos Aires, Argentina:
La Capataza
Para vos...Norma mía!
Rata Kiosco

Cali, Colombia:
lugar a dudas

Caracas, Venezuela:
Librería Kalathos

Ciudad de México, México:
Casa Bosques
EXIT La Librería

Ciudad de Panamá, Panamá:
DiabloRosso

Montevideo, Uruguay:
microutopías

Santiago de Chile, Chile:
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Santiago