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THE ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM
5 Kilometers
The Movement Movement
Social Sculpture
2007
Run The Royal Ontario Museum: A choreographed crowd
formed by hundreds of runners
moves through the museum’s galleries alongside its 6 million
artifacts. This moving sculpture
is made up of: an art class from a high school outside of the city’s
centre, a group of athletes
from the running community, kids from the Regent Park area through
Toronto Housing,
a community of artists and art administrators, museum patrons, The
Movement Movement’s
mailing list, and members of the public who showed up with running
shoes on.
Run of the Royal Ontario Museum in May 2007 is an orchestrated
situation or set of conditions
in which impromptu community can form in the museum. One condition
involves mobilizing people,
the central material of the work. Prior workshops rehearse various
groups that unite in the museum to participate in the movement through
public space: a choreographed sculpture made by running the institution.
Running indoors is a second condition, as it requires participants
to break one
of the fundamental rules on how we behave in public institutions.
Remember that first regulation
of elementary school: “NO RUNNING in the hallways!”
This playful transgression breaks down social barriers allowing
new relationship to form. Temporarily, people and place come together
in an unexpected way.
IMAGE CREDIT: Nick de Pencier
COPYRIGHT: The Movement Movement
RUN CITY HALL
10 Kilometers
The Movement Movement
Social Sculpture
2006
Run City Hall: A public project invited citizens
and civil servants to Run City Hall during
the ‘TO Live with Culture’ campaign. Over the lunch
break, participants ran public art by running
152 circles around Henry Moore’s The Archer, and
on City Hall’s podium roof, a civic space
closed to the public since the 1980s.
IMAGE CREDIT: Miklos Legrady
COPYRIGHT: The Movement Movement
RUN THE LINE
5 Kilometers
The Movement Movement
Social Sculpture
August 2006
Run The Line: Public Run of the 48 Abell Street
artist building before it’s too late: The Movement Movement’s
peaceful run-in to save the building from demolition occurred on
August 29 at 7pm
for the duration of 5 kilometers.
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