Event

The Tour of All Tours

28 Oct 2014

Event times

starts 7PM from outside Richmix duration 100 minutes

Cost of entry

£8

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London, United Kingdom

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Travel Information

  • Buses: 8, 388, 26, 35, 47, 48, 67, 78, 135, 149, 242 and 243
  • Tube: Liverpool Street, Old Street, Bethnal Green, Aldgate East
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a guided tour of guided tours

About

The performance is a guided tour of guided tours that casts a critical and self-referential gaze upon the institution of guided tours around East London while also embracing them and producing an engaging tour in its own right. It is a unique style of work that occupies a slippery space somewhere between tourism and contemporary art / performance. This tour has been researched through taking tours of all sorts which cross East London and The City: of course it covers the street art tours and Jack the Ripper tours but it does not stop there, it goes into more specialist and marginal tours, audio guides, artist projects, pub crawls, protests, Whitechapel Gallery's First Thursday bus and more besides. Amusing and critical at the same time the work is made anew for each location and offers a highly original way to experience the city. It is a tour for people who never take tours but are curious to know what they are like. It is a genuine, albeit novel, review service for tourists. But more than that, it is a work about the city and the many different ways we use and perceive it. 'The ultimate city tour'. Stuttgarter Zeitung. 'Aitchison reforms the guided tour into an engaging and truly unique medium for art outside of the institution and in the public sphere'. Timeout Beijing. The Tour of All Tours is a Bill Aitchison Company production.The London Tour is the 5th tour of tours that has been made the others being Stuttgart (2013), Beijing (2014), Bath (2014) and South Dorset Ridgeway (2014) and this is a project that continues to grow and develop with each new location.

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