Fake Parkour Practice2024-

Step 1: Find at least 1 other person or more people.

Step 2: Define a starting point A and an ending point B and a timeframe (example 40min), the way back can be a moment of reflection/verbal exchange.

Step 3: Read the following information before you share the score below:

„Fake Parkour refers to a form of forward movement whose goal is to get from point A to point B as inefficiently as possible using only the abilities of one's own body. The parkour runner defines its own path through urban and natural space in a way that is different from that prescribed by architecture and culture.“

Important:

Fake Parkour is a training that the practicioners design together based on a score. There is no leader. The aim is to find creative solutions within this score and to move the body in a group from A to B outside the usual ways of moving. To do this, let the environment inspire you and take time to digest the environment through your body, use it as an opportunity to get in contact with your environment through another way than you would normally do. The emphasis is on inefficiency, taking breaks can help to orientate, notice what others are doing, what is going on and use these moments of pauses to sharpen the senses while holding in for a moment.

In Fake Parkour there is no right or wrong, this is an experiment, an exploration of what fake parkour could be, could mean and it lives from all of the practitioners creative ideas.

The practice is also a collective action and everyone together is responsible for the common experience.

There can be a lot of information that affects you in a city, maybe it is helpful not trying to focus on everything at the same time, but rather choose one thing after the other.

Take responsibility for yourself, ask yourself what is possible? recognise dangerous situations.

Step 4: Read the Score (maybe twice) out loud before you go.

Concept

Jamuna Mirjam Zweifel in collaboration with THE FIELD