STREET TRAINING IM KUNSTAREAL

The map below appears inserted into the spring program of the Pinakothek Der Moderne Munich. It guides you through the area around the Pinakothek der Moderne, the Neue Pinakothek and the Alte Pinakothek. It invites you to reawaken physical and mental agility that has become lost through repetitive unconscious behaviour in the city.
Street training uses our increasingly controlled and sanitised built environment for such things as urban climbing, sliding, scrambling, Parkour, or going into the bushes with some one. Regularly practicing such activities can develop spontaneous and responsive movement, thinking and behaviour that directly shapes our environment as much as our environment shapes us.

Please take this guide and refer to it as you move through the kunstareal alone or in a group.

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On the lawn in front of the Alte Pinakothek ‘desire lines’ show the direct imprint of people’s own trajectories on the urban landscape. By walking across the lawn people have created paths that reveal the most direct routes from A to B bypassing the planner’s alternative agenda. (See fig 1)


HOW TO DO IT
"There are a lot of different things you can do – hard physical things or just lie on the ground it depends on how you feel in the moment.
Taking risks is dangerous we must be careful
Interacting with an object means being reflective you have to trust your body, you also become more aware of your energy levels.
Some buildings will let you play with them and others won’t it’s the same with people
Some boundaries we need others we don’t, we find out by getting up close and testing them, this applies for physical, social and psychological boundaries.
Your body will surprise you in good and bad ways
Learn from others who are with you
Test your personal and physical limits
You might do a movement that involves standing on people in this case you have to trust other people with your whole self.
The group is important to feel safe it’s not some thing to do alone.
The group is important you can help each other and you may feel like you are a gang this makes you bolder
You might experience or create spontaneous interactions with people passing by
Be friendly when interacting with security guards
Body/mind, remembrance, feeling, balance, tension, smell, look, gravity, body-power, lightness, fun, spontaneity, power, giddiness. KOERPERGEISTIDEEERINNERUNGUNDGEFUEHLGLEICHGEWICHTSPANNUNGGRASGEFUEHLGERUCHSICHTSCHWERKRAFTKOERPERKRAFTBEWEGUNGLEICHTIGKEITSPASSSPONTANEITAETKRAFTBESCHWINGTHEITLEICHTIGKEIT
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WHAT IT DOES
"You learn to read architecture’s potential for creative interaction.
It gives you body awareness.
It’s a paradox you loose control to gain control.
It’s many different ways to climb stairs.
When you realise that you are being limited you get stronger then you can break out.
We don’t see the limitations that are all around us until we test them.
It’s all right it’s not dangerous, it’s fun.
It doesn’t take long you soon loose your inhibitions.
Looking out for things to climb on becomes natural.
You begin to find simply walking around is boring.
Your possibilities increase.
Objects become subjective not objective.
You may have a strong urge to roll on the ground but feel inhibited by fear of dirtying your clothes.
Different textures become important you notice stones and roughness differently.
It becomes interesting to observe how other people are using space and adapting architecture.
Movements just come out; they carry you"





Collaboratively researched with Susanne Kudorfer, Ute Marxreiter, Sylvia Panter, Petra Waidosch, Tanja Baar, Annette Philp, Jochen Meister, created as part of the Palais Pinakothek program IN BEWEGUNG in September 2006. Made possible through kind support of Outset Contemporary Art Fund special thanks to Kerstin Traube.
Lottie Child www.malinky.org contact lottie@malinky.org

As a result of the research process the street training association of Munich now makes regular excursions, to join the mailing list contact climbingclub@darq.net

Tips and instructions
"We must be orderly in the street if we’re not orderly there will be chaos

People will look at you like you’re mad

Sometimes it looks worse than it is, it looks more dangerous when some one else it doing it

Not everybody immediately likes other people behaving differently

It’s not how high you can climb it's finding and challenging your own limits

Inner pictures and outer pictures don’t match

The Pinakothek Der Moderne is hard to climb, its not sensitive it has hard edges

I think I can fly come with me

I was a climber myself as a child but I’ve been living in my head for close to twenty years"



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