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Trains and by Other Means of Transportation I Was Mapping the Possibilities of Movement of Individuals Within Large Urban Environments 2019 THESIS East by Northeast or Performing the (mega)City: Movement of a Body Through Transportation Networks ANTONÍN BRINDA I.o Příbor, Czech Republic, before departure LIVE ART AND PERFORMANCE STUDIES 2019 THESIS LIVE ART AND PERFORMANCE STUDIES ABSTRACT DATE: 7.12.2019 AUTHOR MASTER’S OR OTHER DEGREE PROGRAMME Antonín Brinda Live Art and Performance Studies TITLE OF THE WRITTEN NUMBER OF PAGES + APPENDICES IN THE WRITTEN SECTION/THESIS SECTION East by Northeast or Performing the (mega)City: Movement of a 216 pages Body Through Transportation Networks TITLE OF THE ARTISTIC/ ARTISTIC AND PEDAGOGICAL SECTION East by Northeast The artistic section is produced by the Theatre Academy. The artistic section is not produced by the Theatre Academy (copyright issues have been resolved). No record exists of the artistic section. Supervisor/s: Ray Langenbach and Giacomo Bottà The final project can be The abstract of the final project can published online. This Yes be published online. This Yes permission is granted No permission is granted for an No for an unlimited unlimited duration. duration. This thesis deals mainly with my final artistic research work East by Northeast which was conducted across two continents, took several months and involved dozens of people. The project consists of photos, videos, audios, writings, maps, performances, discussions, presentations, artist talks, and one workshop. The main (impossible?) goal/research question was finding ways how to articulate, how to perform (mega)cities through the movement of the body through their transportation networks. I have worked with and within (mega)cities of Moscow (Russia), Ulaanbaatar (Mongolia) and Beijing (China). In each one of them, I stayed for approximately one month. An important moment of the research was also a presentation of selected materials in the form of an exhibition in the Space For Free Arts (Vapaan Taiteen Tila) in Helsinki during June 2018. There are many differences between the three selected cities but also several important similarities. They are all interconnected by the Trans-Siberian Railway, the largest transportation network of its kind on Earth. They are all capitals, core cities in which the need for both the efficient urban planning and control over the movement of crowds are very high. All share a socialist past and all were strongly influenced by the Soviet urban planning. Finally, all are currently experiencing impacts of a certain kind of free-market economics. Aside from the micro-level movement within cities, the issues of global mobility and tourism are also important for the text. Why, where and how do people travel and what are the factors influencing their mobility? What is my position as a white European male researcher-tourist in the context of global travel and how can I move around the world in a non-exploitative, non-offensive, environmentally justifiable way? Apart from trying to find new ways of how to ‘perform (mega)cities’, some of these issues appear and disappear throughout the thesis. ENTER KEYWORDS HERE performance art, walking art, urban art, artistic research, tourism, traveling, global mobility, public transportation, nomadism, urbanism, cities, megacities, Moscow, Ulaanbaatar, Beijing, Trans-Siberian Railway TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ................................................................................................... 6 INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................. 8 I TRAVEL BEGINS .................................................................................... 8 East by Northeast.......................................................................................................................9 II TRAVELING (TO EAST) ....................................................................... 13 Life of a ‘nomad’ ....................................................................................................................... 13 Neo-colonialistic question ....................................................................................................... 14 III PREVIOUS WORK .............................................................................. 17 Before studies at LAPS ............................................................................................................. 17 During studies at LAPS ............................................................................................................ 19 IV (MEGA)CITIES OF THE EAST .............................................................. 24 V TECHNICAL NOTES ............................................................................. 29 Performance/perform ............................................................................................................ 29 Performance types .................................................................................................................. 33 Thesis organization ................................................................................................................. 34 CHAPTER 1 TRAVELING ............................................................................................... 37 Introduction ........................................................................................... 37 Why do people travel .............................................................................. 37 Tourism ................................................................................................. 42 Tourism as performance ......................................................................... 44 Tourism research .................................................................................... 49 Global nomad ......................................................................................... 51 Performing tourism in a gallery .............................................................. 55 East by Northeast as tourism research ..................................................... 61 CHAPTER 2 THE RAILWAY .......................................................................................... 64 The arrival of the railway ....................................................................... 64 The machine ensemble ............................................................................. 66 The Trans-Siberian Railway .................................................................... 72 Dorothy in China .................................................................................... 78 CHAPTER 3 BIRTH OF PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION ................................................. 83 Birth of public transport ......................................................................... 83 Case study I: Paris ................................................................................. 84 Case study II: Vienna ............................................................................. 87 Organized motion ................................................................................... 89 Performing the fictional order ................................................................ 93 Cars ....................................................................................................... 99 CHAPTER 4 SOCIALIST CITIES .................................................................................. 105 I .......................................................................................................... 105 Socialism: An uneasy territory .............................................................. 105 Socialist city ......................................................................................... 107 II .......................................................................................................... 118 Utopian legacy ...................................................................................... 118 Garden city ........................................................................................... 119 The geometry of the socialist city ........................................................... 122 CHAPTER 5 EAST BY NORTHEAST ............................................................................ 125 I ........................................................................................................... 125 Overview ............................................................................................... 125 Borders of research ............................................................................... 127 On circularity .......................................................................................129 II .......................................................................................................... 133 MOSCOW ............................................................................................... 133 ULAANBAATAR ..................................................................................... 154 BEIJING ............................................................................................... 169 III .........................................................................................................185 CONCLUSION ............................................................................................................... 187 Two sides of research ............................................................................ 187 Cities and performance ......................................................................... 189 Performing
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