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+ | is a course for true wanderers into an exploration of experimental walking. | ||
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+ | A walk can be considered as 'a transitory experience where our deep human rhytms coincide with their environment.' | ||
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+ | You will explore different methods with a particular focus on duration, instruction, | ||
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+ | This course is inspired by diverse walking practices, from the ancient Songlines of the Australian continent, to the Drunken Dragon walks from China, from the migrations of animals and plants, to the tourist hike and audio tours, from the wandering philosophers and psycho-geographers, | ||
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+ | Which unexpected perceptions, | ||
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+ | Walking - ‘Move at a regular pace by lifting and setting down each foot in turn, never having both feet off the ground at once’ | ||
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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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<fc #800000> The Lovers, The Great Wall Walk, Marina Abramovic and Ulay</ | <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 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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* 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. | * 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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- | 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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