Outsider's Tour

Outsider's Tour
2024 - 2025
Athens, Ohio, USA

In November 2024 and April 2025 I gave six guided tours in Athens, Ohio.

By engaging in group activities, questions, and discussions, we outsiders connected ourselves both physically and metaphysically to the natural and manmade environments, and most importantly, connected with each other.

Photos from the November tour:

We listened to Orpheus from the tubes that connected to the underworld, read the newspaper of Athens and found out about drink of the week, rolled the globe to know where we would end up in five years, asked Heidegger whether technology was making our lives better, sent love to the outer space through the wok at the Athens Ground Station, etc.

Photos from the April tour:

We looked at a mural depicting the dragon that lives under the alley, read word of the day from the escalator which is the pride of OU, bowed to a fragment of a Byzantine mosaic painting on the road, occasionally bumped into three deer who were simply being themselves, and became famous for 30 seconds by walking onto the second floor of the memorial auditorium and waved at strangers like the famous people whose names are hanging on the wall of this building.

Well, fellow outsiders were not only asked to stare at unimportant details but also forced to participate in group activities such as hi-fiving with each other at the historical T-junction in Athens, featuring three red mittens in the traffic lights:

Outsiders also talked to trees through the pure magic of blinking:

We also enjoyed a classical concert with four movements in the alley:

We travelled in time machines where we believed in forever, as everybody else at OU does.

We also wished that our wishes come true:

And here are some very flashy posters: