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| 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. | 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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| 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:// | ||
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| - | The Lovers, The Great Wall Walk, Marina Abramovic and Ulay</ | + | <fc # |
| - | 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 philosophers who taught and discoursed while walking back and forth in a Stoa | * the Peripatetic philosophers who taught and discoursed while walking back and forth in a Stoa | ||
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| * the Anabasis, 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 length, from end to end, of every street in Mahattan. http:// | + | * 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 self expression or discovery or exploration, | walking just as a motion, as process, as a going on in life, a continuum, a mode of self expression or discovery or exploration, | ||
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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. | + | * 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." |
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| + | * 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 | + | |
| - | 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. | + | |
| + | 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. | ||
| + | Boat Emptying, Stream Entering... , comes out of the experience undergone during this journey. The legends were always about the different dragons: Green dragons/ | ||
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| - | * <fc # | + | |
| - | check it out! plus pictures. | + | |
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