Parkour

London’s Regent Street Rooftops: Parkour Daredevil Suspected to Be Graffiti Artist ‘2cool’

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Shoppers on London’s bustling Regent Street paused in amazement yesterday when a figure was spotted darting across the rooftops , leaping gaps between the historic buildings with the agility of a cat and the precision of a trained athlete. Witnesses described the scene as “like something out of an action film.” But the mystery deepened … Read more

Storror, Parkour and the Aesthetics of Urban Transgression

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Parkour , the art of moving through the city with maximum speed and economy , arrived in the public imagination as a kind of kinetic sublime: a human body negotiating the modernist geometry of steps, balustrades and façades with a grace and style that repurposes urban architecture. If, in the 1990s and early 2000s, the … Read more

Art in Motion: Dafydda ap Gruffydd’s Parkour as Fine Art

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There are few artists alive today who make motion itself the medium. Fewer still approach that motion with the grace, precision, and brilliance of Dafydda ap Gruffydd. Known for her enigmatic land art and long-distance walking projects, Dafydda has recently turned her quiet, relentless attention to an unlikely new canvas: parkour. Parkour, often associated with … Read more