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If Eskimos famously have more than 20 words for snow, equally there are dozens of different terms for what is essentially putting one foot in front of another.
When you apply the activity to an arts context, with the myriad of contextual and conceptual and historical connotations that involves, then it seems there might be a series of categories which the act of walking as a cultural practice could be divided up in to.
So we mailed out to The Walking Artists Network for suggestions - what could the categories be? - how would one categorise one's own practice?
Here's a start of a list which might grow throughout the Exhibition.
WALKING CATEGORIES
FROM AIRSPACE GALLERY
performance
mapping
psychogeography
exploration
drift/derive
FROM ERIC STEEN
Education
Social
Engagement
Discovery
FROM WALTER SIEGFRIED
enhanced perception
FROM KATJA MUENKER
performance
performance installation
walk
hike
experience
intervention
FROM KELLY RANKIN
wanderlust
contemplation
meditation
FROM CHRISTOPHER MOLLON
Liminal
Durational
Ephemeral
Action
Intertidal
Rural
(Urban)
Site-specific
Site-responsive
FROM STEPH BRADLEY
Pilgrimage
Social Commentary (Collecting & Sharing
Stories/News)
Oral History ( Storytelling/Troubadour/Minstrel)
Community Building
Reconnection ( to place, self, other, nature, spirit,
soul)
FROM TRAVIS SOUZA
Psychogeography
Education/Research
Politics
Drawing
FROM ANNA FRANCIS
Research
Investigation
Tour
Performance
Conversation piece
FROM PHILIPPE GUILLAUME
Peripatetic
Photography
Relational Ambulation
Wayfinding
Walking,
Strangers
Chance Interaction
FROM TRACY KEMMETT
Spiritual connection
inspiration
making myth
conversations
whimsy
FROM BRAM ARNOLD
Transecting.
-The act of treating a walk like an ecological transect.
Conversational.
-Purposeful stepping out with one other person, using the walk as a
landscape for the imagination.
Editorial.
-Using a footpath as a way of interpreting a text, through reading it into
a place.
Memorial.
-A walk in contemplation of a significant life event, the mind only works
at 3 miles an hour, giving it time and space to cope with grief, loss.
FROM ALEXANDER CHAMPION
Circumambulation
Slow walk
Walking for health
FROM KRIS DARBY
Edges
Water
Gender
Environmentalism
Pilgrimage
Labyrinths
Flaneur/Flaneuse
Audio
Film
Intimate
Countertourism
GPS
Autotopography
Trek
I see you are crowdsourcing your categories. As a librarian by training this process looks very interesting, if giving rather random results so far. Is the aim to develop a classification, or keep the end result more informal? I can see I'm going to have to come back and take a closer look!
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