Parkour

Parkour traceurs move against the backdrop of capital city, putting into

relief what is there. Glimpsed against the rectangles of the buildings of the

business sector, parkour is art set in its frame. This contemplation is as

much about the city as about parkour and unruly wandering.

Free running is a mode of bringing forth or revealing dimensions of the

physical and spiritual self through a particular type of urban gymnastics. It destabilizes

and disrupts technocapitalist meanings of a city’s physical and social landscape

goal of exploring how one’s body is shaped by the political geography of a late

for its practitioners. Parkour is ultimately a communion with one’s habitat, in the 

modern city.