At the beginning of the summer when warmer weather is upon us, vaccine distribution gradually expanding, and a year of being largely home-bound, many of us may needed a little encouragement (or even instruction!) on how to re-emerge into the outside world or perhaps simply re-engage our daily environment.
With this in mind, MIT List Visual Arts Center organized This Way, a series of nine artist-designed walks and experiences that offer us diverse points of entry—some intimate explorations of physical embodiment and sensory experience, others guided modifications of scale, space, and geography, or novel considerations of language, architectures, or landscapes.
Borrowing its title from a 1961 series by conceptual artist Stanley Brouwn, while also drawing inspiration from Fluxus and the dérive or “drift” of the Situationists, This Way takes up themes of movement and performance, ritual and meditation, and both abstract and concrete explorations of a range of spaces we occupy. A new iteration of This Way had been released on the List Center website every other Wednesday, from May 12 to September 8, 2021 and they are now all available.
