Telematic walks intersect bodies in two places without physical nearness. Through an analog telematics, the guide extends their experience of space; the listener steps into their shoes. Telematic walking is a method for embodied & comparative urban studies. The project responds to a spatial practitioner’s urge: what can walking practices do in the infonavigational era and under the sign of COVID-19? What is a dérive of our time?

In segments of 28 minutes, The Telematic Walking Hour features Marina describing a walk in her city using orientations of her body: left, right, look, pause. Listeners are invited to follow these orientations as they walk, grafting the shape and time of a walk in Berlin onto the streets of LA, by means of the body. They negotiate impossible turns and awkward pauses and find moments of magical correspondence. Walkers were encouraged to share experiences with Marina, to eventually integrate the telematic walking website.

Marina Resende Santos walks and listens, stops at the red light, then goes on. Marina is an artist, writer, and researcher interested in the politics and poetics of materiality. Her installations, performances and participative projects look with wonder for the ways that inhabited space is (de)formed through power and resistance, desire and its failure. Marina is currently researching the temporalities and unequal ecological & economic networks created by material globalization, especially as they reincarnate colonial relationships between the global North and South. Many of her interests converge on the ongoing project Antinous, which will lead to a performance at the Jane Byrne Interchange in Chicago this summer. Marina grew up in Viçosa, graduated from the University of Chicago, and works with publications, arts programming and community radio in Chicago, Salvador and Berlin. She is currently an MA candidate focusing on critical spatial practices at the weißensee kunsthochschule berlin.