Take a classic work of literature,
Take a park bench,
Take an hour or so,
Read aloud to the city, to the park, to the audience,
See if it makes things better…
The Park Bench Reader is an iterative socially engaged performance work that has been commissioned by Conflux Festival of Psychogeography in New York, Live Art Falmouth, Plymouth Art Weekender and This Is Not a Gateway Festival in East London. An essay on the project was published in Critical Cities: Ideas, Knowledge and Agitation from Emerging Urbanists, Volume 1, 2009.
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