Catherine Harrington’s practice reflects her lifelong engagement with environmental, urban, and social issues, and training as an architect. A key component of her work is facilitating walking art events and performative works.
Exploring the different ways walking “performs” and intervenes in public spaces, she encourages collective debate, questioning how buildings embody social practices and how inhabitation itself is a form of social practice. How can we interrogate buildings to call out these practices – when organised around exclusion or for amassing cultural capital?
As part of this year’s Antiuniversity Now series of events, Occhi is proud to support Catherine’s ‘Re-shaping Histories’ – a guided walk around Lincoln’s Inn Fields (LIF) to investigate the spatial practices and social habits of its public spaces and buildings of its historic built fabric along with its more recent and upcoming site transformations.
Through storytelling and discussion, attendees will uncover LIF’s entangled social histories, identify and challenge some of the existing site’s problematic social conventions, and explore some of the power relations being played out. Stories unearthed from the site’s dark social past and from the present day will be pieced together through a spoken word collage that calls upon unheard or excluded voices and evokes multiple viewpoints. 
With this hybrid collection of stories and buildings as a backdrop, attendees can discuss imagined possible new social scenarios for their inhabitation, while also generating ideas and practices for social change.
By exploring this area of London together, attendees can reflect upon the values we think should be shaping the city.
The walk, this Thursday 5th of October, will start from the pavilion in the centre of Lincoln’s Inn Fields, followed by a walk/talk for an hour. This guided walk takes place on wheelchair-accessible paths and dogs are welcome. Public WCs are available.
For further information on the artist, please visit https://catherineharrington.org/about/
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