Walking in the Way is a collaborative series of performances by established visual artists Pauline Cummins and Frances Mezzetti. Since 2008 they have explored control of public space, stereotyping, masculinities, movement and presence.
The two women artists have performed Walking in the Way in Belfast, Dublin, and Edinburgh. They have also performed in London, LondonDerry, Istanbul, and Dublin, as part of the Labour Touring Show, and in Madrid, Seville, and Malaga supported by Bbeyond and Culture Ireland.
Walking in the Way book cover
Walking in the Way – Performing Masculinity
by Pauline Cummins &
Frances Mezzetti
Editor: Art historian, Catherine Marshall,
Publisher: WAAG Women Artists Action Group.
Contributors: Essays by Catherine Marshall, Dr. Áine Phillips, Ed., Performance Art in Ireland: A History, Dr. Kate Antosik-Parsons and Nieves Correa, curator and performance artist.
Walking in the Way: Performing Masculinity is a 98 page publication with 44 high quality images which documents the project begun in 2008 around the gendered occupancy of spaces in cities in which the artists have performed in Ireland, UK, Turkey and Spain.