Francis Alÿs

Francis Alÿs is the first artist to get me thinking about the idea of performing a map. He's an artist based in Mexico City whose done a number of pieces called "Paseos" that involve walking and making, collecting, or documenting experiences of the walk itself. The pieces where he steadily drops paint from a punctured paint can are powerful as mapping pieces because, like MOMO's Manhattan graffiti tag, they visually mark a path, simultaneously creating and crossing borders of various sorts.