ABSTRACT
Beginning with defining fundamental concepts such as public space and the public sphere, we set out to explore performances in public space and their common associations with the flâneur and the Situationists. We refer to the conditions of performing in public space, the opportunities and challenges that are presented and we explore specific case studies. Performance artists engage in trajectories in the urban landscape creating rifts in the everyday, crossing spaces of self and other exposing the disarray and arbitrariness of the everyday and revealing suppressed histories, overlooked connections and invisible networks. Activities and practice prompts aspire to help artists use public space as a place for creating a site-specific performance, practice person-to-person interaction in public and appreciate urban space as a place of real and imaginative stories.
