London Walks (2010–2012)

London Walks is an experimental documentary co-created with Karolina Raczynski that examines how access to public space is unevenly structured during moments of political and civic intensity. The work documents three walks undertaken in London during significant public events: a student protest against education cuts and tuition fees; the Jubilee celebrations on the River Thames; and the Olympic Park in Stratford, East London, during the Games. Carrying a whiteboard through these spaces, we used it as a mobile surface for recording and questioning the conditions under which participation was made possible or denied. The whiteboard operates as both a reflective object and a screen: it mirrors what lies behind the camera while partially revealing and interrupting what lies in front of it.

Each walk unfolded within a heavily managed urban environment, shaped by policing, crowd control, and infrastructural regulation. Moving through the city became a negotiation—of barriers, permissions, and exclusions—revealing stark contrasts between events that facilitated circulation and those that restricted it through tactics such as containment, rerouting, and kettling. London Walks foregrounds the embodied experience of moving through a securitised city and interrogates the relationship between political expression, spatial control, and mediated visibility.

Walk No.1: "Fight, fight, fight back!" (DV, 3', colour, sound)                                              Walk No.2: "One pound your souvenir flags, only a pound!" (DV, 6' colour, sound)    Walk No.3: "Without a ticket you will not be allowed in!" (DV, 6’, colour, sound)

Stills from Walk No.1: "Fight, fight, fight back!"