Niegel Smith
Elastic City treats walking as a way of art
Our group spent an hour and a half smelling, touching, covering and closing our eyes, tasting, and walking with a heightened awareness of all our senses. The event was a “sensewalk” called “Everything Is New” that Gutierrez created for Elastic City (the first of four sensewalks he is leading this summer). Elastic City was founded by artist Todd Shalom in 2010 to commission artists from various mediums to make and lead urban walks—not walking tours, but walks. More
