City 2009: Artistic Parade

Following the closing of the performance at Shunt at midnight an artistic procession from the Southbank to the city of London will take place. The procession will run from Shunt Valuts, via the Southbank and Tate modern, across the Millenium Bridge to Saint Pauls and Bank, then through the city back over Tower Bridge. The procession will be punctuated by performances, poetry reading, public declamations and manifestos relating to the symbolic dominance of the city of London over the futures of the peoples of Europe and the world. The Procession will draw from the imaginaries of Blake's prophesies for London, Orwell's dystopia in 1984, and Eliot's Wasteland, amongst other resources. Ghosts from Europe's past will come alive and rewalk the streets, alongside millenarian of the world's future.