ABSTRACT
This chapter considers autoethnography to 'witness' a performance where the artist, Olive Bieringa of the BodyCartography Project walked/danced/drifted down seven blocks of downtown Minneapolis. It argues that, in this performance Bieringa exposed her audience to a glimpse of the affect, the psychogeography, of an urban street by transgressing the assumptions about how people move in city spaces. The BodyCartography Project is able to de-naturalize and reanimate their chosen sites 'by moving the dancers and the audience through it during the dance'. The performance of Go! Taste the City was 60 minutes of live improvised action, interaction and response to several blocks of real estate and real people in downtown Minneapolis. Over the seven blocks 'walked' during Go! Taste the City, the streetscape goes from 'so clean, with corporate types in their suits' to 'completely different populations and activities' as one get closer to the I-94 freeway overpass and then cross over it.
