TRAMTACTIC
TRAMTACTIC makes art projects in public space to transport people.
TRAMTACTICS DEPART FROM THE POETIC POTENTIAL OF TRAMWAYS
Tramtactic art projects draw from the practical characteristics of tramways to create poetic encounters with public transport that resonate with the collective memory and imagination.
TRAMTACTICS MOBILISE THE ART OF PUBLIC LIFE
Tramtactics celebrate the uniquely human attributes in ways of doing things in everyday public life. The art of addressing and engaging the cultural lives of urban people is mobilised by the street-wise agility of tramtactics.
TRAMTACTICS MANOEUVRE BACK AND FORTH TOWARD SUSTAINABILITY
Tramtactics follow the uniquely non-linear operating logic of tramways, moving back and forth, day in and day out, to explore how enriched experiences of tram travel can foster increased public transport patronage. Now undergoing an international revival a century after invention, tramways and light rail transport systems are becoming better understood for their practical and poetic contribution to more sustainable urban transport choices.
TRAMTACTICS NEGOTIATE STREET SITUATIONS WITH TACT
Tramtactics demonstrate how the complexities of urban living may be negotiated with care and tact, responding to tricky circumstances in flexible ways. Tramtactics are constructed through collaborative working relationships of mutual advantage, creating a collective of people moved by a city’s tramways in different ways.
TRAMTACTICS MOBILISE EFFECTS TO GET PEOPLE MOVING
Tramtactics build on people’s shared experience of being transported by trams in ways that enable us to momentarily repose and feel emotionally moved in the circle of life. Tramtactics explore the relationship between the practical movement afforded by tramways and the contemporary social, political, economic and creative forces of movement brought to tramways.
TRAMTACTICS ARE TACTILE
Tramtactics celebrate the irreducible capacity of people to feel and make themselves felt, to move, and be moved. Tramtactics brush up against the textures of urban life to provoke us into encountering others and recognising that things could be otherwise.
TRAMTACTICS NETWORK
Tramtactics operate simultaneously at local and global levels, maximising the echo effect that a tactic here can have elsewhere. In the context of increased global forces, tramtactics lay the tracks for a different network of globalisation from below.
TRAMTACTICS NEGOTIATE TRAMWAYS CONDUCT
Tramtactics explore the conduct of users and organisers of tramways systems. Tramtactics contribute toward debates about the desirable attributes and competencies that will determine the sought after tram and light rail services of the future.
TRAMTACTICS ARE FANTASTIC
Tramtactics stimulate the everyday urban imagination by heightening awareness of the fantastic dimensions of tramways life. Tramtactics come and go, appearing and disappearing to challenge popular certainty and point toward the extraordinary qualities of ordinary passages in life.
[tramtactic bag, Mick Douglas with Kolkata leather workers, first edition 2001]]
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