Run This Block
Run This Block was a participatory performance event that used
the format of a race to investigate the social and spatial aspects of running.
Participants ran and walked 23 laps around the Granville Street pedestrian mall
in order to complete a 5 km course. The
unusual route concentrated the runner-performers into a specific
location and put them into sustained contact with their surroundings and the
other people in the area.
Running is proposed here to be a form of inhabitation; a reflexive practice, encouraging
focus on the each runners' subjective experiences during the event; and an act
of territorial definition. The race alludes to general systems of
competition and social organization and functions as a venue to enact the
complex cultural forces motivating us to run.
The race event was co-created by Andrew Rabyniuk, Tara MacDougall, Marlene Ramos, Kramer, Stephanie Yee, Caleb Hung.
2014