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introduction course Two Legged Research | introduction course Two Legged Research | ||
- | The Walking Seminar. Embodied Research Methodologies in emergent Anthropocene Landscapes https:// | + | The Walking Seminar. Embodied Research Methodologies in emergent Anthropocene Landscapes https:// |
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* My footsteps make the mark. My legs carry me across the country. It's like a way of measuring the world. I love that connection to my own body. It's to me the world. Richard long. The Guardian, June 15, 2012. | * My footsteps make the mark. My legs carry me across the country. It's like a way of measuring the world. I love that connection to my own body. It's to me the world. Richard long. The Guardian, June 15, 2012. | ||
- | * In the sixties walking art beacame | + | * In the sixties walking art became |
In the nature of things: | In the nature of things: | ||
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sleeping by the river' | sleeping by the river' | ||
+ | A Line Made By Walking and England 1967. Long created this work by repeatedly walking back and forth in a field made of grass. After that, Richard Long photographed this from an angle at which light enhanced the look of the line. | ||
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* Monty Python; Ministry of silly Walks: https:// | * Monty Python; Ministry of silly Walks: https:// | ||
- | assignment: from the exotics--- to the everyday surrounding , read text together....Embodied research in emergent Antropoceen landscapes. a walk as inspiration for a work or as a work itself... | + | |
walk step, moonwalk in between exercise: https:// | walk step, moonwalk in between exercise: https:// | ||
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that sometimes the only thing that one needs to enjoy their city in a new and unique way can be something as modest as a block of ice. the street, the crowds and the people who populate the street , determine his actions. | that sometimes the only thing that one needs to enjoy their city in a new and unique way can be something as modest as a block of ice. the street, the crowds and the people who populate the street , determine his actions. | ||
Passers-by and traffic always provide unexpected twists. | Passers-by and traffic always provide unexpected twists. | ||
- | In his work Narcotourismo he walked for a week through Copenhagen, each day under the influence of a different dru after followed a depression. In london he walked past houses with fences. like a small child ALuys rattled past them during his walks with a stick. Those walks culminated in a series of short films | + | In his work Narcotourismo he walked for a week through Copenhagen, each day under the influence of a different dru after followed a depression. In london he walked past houses with fences. like a small child ALys rattled past them during his walks with a stick. Those walks culminated in a series of short films |
Francis Alÿs Paradox of Praxis 1 (Sometimes making something leads to nothing)https:// | Francis Alÿs Paradox of Praxis 1 (Sometimes making something leads to nothing)https:// | ||
- | + | <fc #800000> The Lovers, The Great Wall Walk, Marina Abramovic and Ulay</ | |
- | + | What walking means in cultural history: | |
- | what walking means in cultural history: | + | |
* Homeric bards, old wanderers for whom walking was a part of poetry | * Homeric bards, old wanderers for whom walking was a part of poetry | ||
- | * the Peripatetic | + | * the Peripatetic |
* Collonade; the walking poets of the Hellenistic world, who would leave a little poem behind them them at a brook or under a shade tree where other walkers from town to town would find them, extolling the shade of the tree, the clarity and coolness of the water in the brook, | * Collonade; the walking poets of the Hellenistic world, who would leave a little poem behind them them at a brook or under a shade tree where other walkers from town to town would find them, extolling the shade of the tree, the clarity and coolness of the water in the brook, | ||
- | * The Sky- walking or Cloud-walking Taoist poets and ages, who would high uo in the mountain peaks in cloud banks | + | * The Sky- walking or Cloud-walking Taoist poets and sages, who would walk high mountain peaks in cloud banks |
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* The Buddhist walking meditation, in which excruciating slowness first the path then the heel of each foot gloms the ground. | * The Buddhist walking meditation, in which excruciating slowness first the path then the heel of each foot gloms the ground. | ||
- | * the Anabis, the great walk of the greek soldiers trapped in Persia under Xenophon | + | * the Anabasis, the great walk of the Greek soldiers trapped in Persia under Xenophon |
* the walk to the end of the world that Alexander the Great wept from inability to complete | * the walk to the end of the world that Alexander the Great wept from inability to complete | ||
- | * the wandering scholars and troubadours of the European Middle Ages | + | |
- | * Mao's Long March and Gandhi' | + | * Mao's Long March and Gandhi' |
- | * the man who ritually walked the lenght, from end to end, of every streetin | + | * the man who ritually walked the length, from end to end, of every street in Mahattan. http:// |
and so on | and so on | ||
- | walking just as a motion, as process, as a going on in life, a continuum, a mode of selfexpression | + | walking just as a motion, as process, as a going on in life, a continuum, a mode of self expression |
- | * The prostrating walk in Chine Buddhism. The monk enters a concentration or one pint-state as much as possible, faces in the direction he wishes to traverse, and lies flat on his face on the ground; when he gets up he plants his feet where his face had been when he was lying down, gathers his concentration again, and so on. It's much like the movement of an inch-worm, except that with each prostration he advances about five feet. For centuries Buddhist monks developing their vipassana concentration, | + | * The prostrating walk in Chine Buddhism. The monk enters a concentration or one pint-state as much as possible, faces in the direction he wishes to traverse, and lies flat on his face on the ground; when he gets up he plants his feet where his face had been when he was lying down, gathers his concentration again, and so on. It's much like the movement of an inch-worm, except that with each prostration he advances about five feet. For centuries Buddhist monks developing their vipassana concentration, |
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- | Relation in Space, Venice Biennale 1976. M; "our first performance was, Relation In Space in 1976 and was performed for the Venice Biennale. This idea of this piece was two naked bodies running and hitting each other frontally and increasing the speed for one hour. We really wanted to have this male and female energy put together and create something we called That Self." | ||
- | The Great Wall Walk (1988) was based in the idea of the artists walking towards each other, in theirr early work, the pair walked toward each other over and over again with great physical concentration across a small space. in the great wall the while they converged across a fast distance, their walking invoved perhaps even more mental than physical effort. | + | |
- | (source: | + | * Relation in Space, Venice Biennale 1976. M; "our first performance was, Relation In Space in 1976 and was performed for the Venice Biennale. This idea of this piece was two naked bodies running and hitting each other frontally and increasing the speed for one hour. We really wanted to have this male and female energy put together and create something we called That Self." |
- | their experience from the state of walking and also of being in China resulted in works which were exhibited: | + | |
+ | * The Great Wall Walk (1988) was based in the idea of the artists walking towards each other, in theirr early work, the pair walked toward each other over and over again with great physical concentration across a small space. in the great wall the while they converged across a fast distance, their walking invoved perhaps even more mental than physical effort. | ||
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+ | Their experience from the state of walking and also of being in China resulted in works which were exhibited: | ||
Boat Emptying, Stream Entering; 3 objects which the audience is asked to use until the energy is transmitted: | Boat Emptying, Stream Entering; 3 objects which the audience is asked to use until the energy is transmitted: | ||
The public is invited to experience physically, with their head resting on a quartz or obsidian cushion and their body in contact with the copper, the degree of energetic emanation conveyed by the materials. Starting from two opposite points, they advanced towards each other for ninety days before coming together. Entitled The Lovers , this action marked not only the end of his relationship and artistic collaboration with Ulay, but also an emotional and creative rebirth. The artist considers The Lovers not as a performance, | The public is invited to experience physically, with their head resting on a quartz or obsidian cushion and their body in contact with the copper, the degree of energetic emanation conveyed by the materials. Starting from two opposite points, they advanced towards each other for ninety days before coming together. Entitled The Lovers , this action marked not only the end of his relationship and artistic collaboration with Ulay, but also an emotional and creative rebirth. The artist considers The Lovers not as a performance, | ||
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