THE STICK AS A SCRIPT OF MY MOVEMENT

My experiences of living with a stick for a week First week (Friday, 31 January, 2025) During the first week of my second term at Portsmouth university, I, as a Spatial Practices student, had to be with a stick 24 hours a day for a week. Every where I went I carried the stick. It took me a little time to get used to carrying an awkward stick every where and people's reaction in public spaces. Sometimes I forgot to take the stick out with myself. During this journey the stick kept telling me how to move in different-sized spaces or how not to move. According to Jane Bennett's concept of "Thing power" the stick, as an inanimate object, had agency to influence my movement. For example, when I was going to get in the car or fasten my seatbelt the stick, which was in my hand, had an impact on the way I was sitting or fastening my seatbelt. In fact the stick had the power to perform me. Also, the stick played the role of score, as Lawrence Halprin notes in his b...