Life in cities is closely intertwined with embodied movements and mediated experiences. The experiences and possible changes of urban environments can be expressed through various (artistic) genres. Culture events provide platforms for alternative voices and trajectories of future. There is challenge to integrate expressive genres and performed environments for interpreting embodied encounters in cities. The study discusses performed materiality of urban spaces by focusing on affects, articulated culture-nature relations and openness of places. Embodiments are seen as visualized and practiced multisensory associations that suggest (virtual) change and partly frame meaningful experiences of environments. In-becoming embodiments of urban life are studied through expressions articulated by artistic genres of video mediated story-telling and architectural art installations mainly in the context of Tallinn, which is also chosen as one city to host the European Capital of Culture in year 2011. The study evokes questions about cosmopolitanism and participatory entities in micropolitics of urban worlding. There are elaborated approaches to understand event-like spatiality together with rhythms of everyday places and social encounters.