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Through the solitary act of walking within an urban space, I film and photograph from a first persons point of view in order to document the banality, alienation and manipulation of the everyday capitalist perspective. As an installation and new form of work within itself, I work with the collected records through projection. I deconstruct these documents by reflecting upon the walk and space, and all of this is to induce the viewer to authentically participate, socialise and walk within the installation’s space itself; thus, momentarily forgetting about the deception and alienation of consumer society through this.
Walking along the walls of the world!
To commemorate the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin the 9th November 2014, I had the idea to walk around all the defensive walls around to world. Growing up in Berlin and having experienced the impact of the wall among generations, I plan to do this project as an act of art as political activism in order to create awareness of the constitution of the world, focussing basicly on the issues of political or ideological conflict or immigration issues.
The map of walls created by the geographer Thierry Gauté will be used (http://www.courrierinternational.com/article/2014/11/07/la-carte-des-murs-du-monde). The project will start january and febuary 2015, walking around the borders of Singapore/Malaysia, Malaysia/ Thailand and Brunei Malaysia (please look at the map). The project is going to be completed inbetween the next 3/4 years.
I am looking for artists who want to join the project, ideas of documentation, and an economic founding.
Hope to hear from you!
Just found this group as I research my Walker’s journal called ‘Lost and found’ or ‘Damn!’. Wonderful!
I didn’t walk. I didn’t write. My daughter is the age I was in 1977 when I was a literature student in Santiago de Compostela in not yet democratic Spain where thousands of women were in jail for adultery and abortion. In October 2015 I walked 116km into Santiago and found a rich seam. It reminded me that I did my growing up walking as 1 liberated teenager beside Catalans and Gallegos through the last decade of Western European fascism am on the last check of the 25th edit of a 60k creative and lyrical memoire and anthology which I want to (not self-)publish. Any thoughts from anyone interested most welcome for moral support, shared memories or publishing ideas.
Slag heaps, Shoulder of Mutton, Slide Cop and Baldy, black egrets, Zambezi mud, nodding donkeys, Camel Thorn, Fagus Sylvatica. Nyamandhlovu to Pulborough. Subject and situation. Striding, strolling, sleeping; in all my places, to walk or not, to think or not, to plan or not, to dream or not.
Thank you so much for allowing me to be part of the community. A member of your community got a copy of my book, Camino de Santiago: 40 Contemplations As You Walk and she invited and encouraged me to part of this group. I write, paint and study anatomy and its relationship with consciousness. Everything I create comes from my morning walks in which I process what happens in my life and get inspire by nature.
My first book is an offering, containing 40 contemplations based on the human body and nature.
I will be pleased if my contribution enriches your walk and life.
Walking as a way to get places is a fading art . More and more we rely on outside sources to do the work our bodies were designed to do. When I walk, I connect with the space I walk through, and a journey becomes a process of change. I walk barefoot often because I can feel the space as well as seeing and hearing it. I also train parkour as a way to further reconnect with my environment, be it urban or rural.
As a women who #walks as art and has been #ruining walking groups though #London on #mental health walks, how did I not know about this?
I run #largactyal #Shuffle walks from 2005 we run 12 walks a year and did this up untill 2015, the walks also run in the since musunme and also as CoolWalks…………..I now run under the west way the low line adn others if you want to jion me and find out more call 07952481566, or email mbfcsra@gmail.com upcoming for 2020 is the women’s walk suffergets in the city form Westminster Parliament squarer to the Southbank March and then onto June for a midnight extraganzar into the beyoned of Bermonsdey
CoolTan Arts Largactyl Shuffle Midnight Walk
© Andre Batista
Time Out says…..Sadly, Largactyl is not a species of large, winged dinosaur. It’s usually spelled Largactil and it’s the world’s oldest anti-psychotic drug, infamous for inducing extreme physical side effects including a shuffling, lumbering gait. Don’t worry: the organisers of this summer solstice midnight walk will not try to drug you (in fact, the event is strictly alcohol-free). They will, however, do their best to blow your mind on a 4.8 mile tour of Southwark, starting outside Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall and ending at the Maudsley Hospital in Denmark Hill, the largest mental health training facility in the UK.
Sensing a theme? CoolTan Arts is a charity run by and for adults with mental health issues, and stop-off points along the route include the site of the Marshalsea, where Charles Dickens’s father was imprisoned; the Heygate, a hulking neo-brutalist housing estate awaiting demolition; Camberwell House, a former asylum; and the Cross Bones Cemetery, a disused burial ground that was once an unconsecrated graveyard for sex workers.
Posted: Wednesday June 3 2015
I am architect, urban planner and photographer that is doing research on walking and uses it as a way of navigating the city and of expressing myself.
Kelly Yarbrough is based in Manhattan, Kansas, and works within an ecosystem of mixed media drawing, arts administration, and community program development directly inspired by the native tallgrass prairie. Kelly holds an MFA from Kansas State University, and founded the Tallgrass Artist Residency in 2016. She has developed many relationships with Art and Ecology partners through her work and service leadership roles in Kansas and beyond.
Repetitive mark making and layering are two strong themes within my practice. I am a process led, multi-disciplinary artist, making work with drawing and printmaking methods.
The mark making is intuitive and organic, exploring breath, location, and time. I draw with materials from the environment around me letting the physical experience and response to my surroundings rule. Along with the quills, sticks, and found objects from these places, I also gather earth pigment and chalk to use back in the studio.
Walking is a large part of my aesthetic practice. I return to the same locations noticing and journaling the drift of coastline and fields and reveal the process of walking and drawing in spaces that are now becoming autobiographical. I’m interested in the physicality of the walk – the departure and arrival and what goes between and the discovery of a spiritual calligraphy and connection with the land.
Breath meditation drawings are made with mindful focus. A series of intuitive mark making while I consciously undertake breath patterns or mindful listening. Recent experiments with Wind Drawings are exciting and new to my methodologies.
The drawings feed my printmaking.
Working in an arbitrary manner preferring the free flow of a piece as it progresses in printmaking, playing inspires the discovery.
I strive for a meditative detachment as I make, recreating the repetition of the walk and breath drawing exercises. Using abstract formations with a suggestion of landscape, I work in many levels of ink to create intensity and depth. Obliterating older pieces of work to create new pieces, questioning what might lie beneath. Adding wax, and natural and metallic pigments, these watery layered images have a translucence and luminosity unique to the method and perfect for my subject matter. More recently I have returned to monochrome pieces – stripping back the layers leaving strong bold impressions of landscape.
Hi, I love your works. They are great!! 🙂
I am a visual artist, feminist art historian, professor, mother of three, and lifelong walker. My current research is a series of theoretical and artistic inquiries on listening as artistic method in contemporary art. I am a firm believer in the relational power of walking. During early 2022, I conducted 100 days of “Winter Walking” in amiskwaciwaskahaikan / Edmonton, Alberta as a way of listening as a guest in this place.
My practice explores what happens to objects and spaces that lose human presence. I am interested in how an abandoned space is reclaimed over time as parts rot and crumble away. To find the beauty in decay as nature tries to consume what we have created. The contrast of a forgotten disused object being consumed by so much life as a foundation for growth. Capturing the time between human presence. The silence between events. The calmness and quietness of not having any people in sight, yet it is comforting to see signs of life nearby. My inspiration comes from going on walks. I like how unpredictable findings can be. There is a curiosity to explore and discover which I then record through drawing and photography.
While living in India over three years I recorded my experience while walking as prose poems. Since returning to the UK I have continued this, less frequently, but still from the act of walking and observing.
I’m a visual artist and educator living in New Orleans, LA. I began walking consistently since the pandemic and the passing of my father on the first day of the shut-down. Nature has become my solace. Walking helped process my grief and balance the stress of the COVID unknown. Three and a half years on it has become so much more. My work is inspired by my wanderings across the terrain of south Louisiana. I want to integrate and articulate this more fully in my practice.