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- | The Walking Seminar. Embodied Research Methodologies in emergent Anthropocene Landscapes https:// | + | |
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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:// | ||
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+ | a walk as inspiration for a work or as a work itself... | ||
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* The Rhythm of walking generates a kind of rhythm of thinking, and the passage through a landscape echoes or stimulates the passage through a series. This creates an odd consonance between internal and external passage, one that suggests athat the mind is also a landscape of sorts and that walking is one way to traverse it. Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: a history of walking. | * The Rhythm of walking generates a kind of rhythm of thinking, and the passage through a landscape echoes or stimulates the passage through a series. This creates an odd consonance between internal and external passage, one that suggests athat the mind is also a landscape of sorts and that walking is one way to traverse it. Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: a history of walking. | ||
- | * she describes walking as a state in which the mind, the body and the world are alingned, as though they were three characters finally in concersation with each other, three notes suddenly make a chord. According to Solnit, the walking agreement not only provides a pleasant or healing feeling, which we all know, but also promotes creativity; during the walk, the passing landscape becomes, as it were, intertwined with your thought world, which also becomes a landscape. The new ideas that gradually emerge feel more familiar than usual. As though thinking were travelling | + | * she describes walking as a state in which the mind, the body and the world are alingned, as though they were three characters finally in concersation with each other, three notes suddenly make a chord. According to Solnit, the walking agreement not only provides a pleasant or healing feeling, which we all know, but also promotes creativity; during the walk, the passing landscape becomes, as it were, intertwined with your thought world, which also becomes a landscape. The new ideas that gradually emerge feel more familiar than usual. As though thinking were traveling |
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- | * "A thought only gains value after it has been walked through" | + | |
* landing Sites Cocky Eek; https:// | * landing Sites Cocky Eek; 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. | + | |
* In the sixties walking art became a genre by itself. | * In the sixties walking art became a genre by itself. | ||
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* Walking Exercises: Lines and Squiggles in the Desert: https:// | * Walking Exercises: Lines and Squiggles in the Desert: https:// | ||
* drunken dragon walk. source Dr Shen Hongxun | * drunken dragon walk. source Dr Shen Hongxun | ||
- | * You're walking and you don't always realize it, but you're always falling. With each step up,you fall forward slightly and then catch yourself from falling. Over and over your falling and then catching yourself from falling and this how you can be walking and falling at the same time. Laurie Anderson - Gravity' | + | * You're walking and you don't always realize it, but you're always falling. With each step up,you fall forward slightly and then catch yourself from falling. Over and over your falling and then catching yourself from falling and this how you can be walking and falling at the same time. Laurie Anderson - Gravity' |
* Sometimes you are not even aware that you are listening, but moving along with your tempo. Laurie Anderson. Northon lectures #02. | * Sometimes you are not even aware that you are listening, but moving along with your tempo. Laurie Anderson. Northon lectures #02. | ||
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- | * I cannot sit still until I have moved. Walking itself is a way to take your mind off things, clear your head , make room for something new. Thomas Roosenboom, vrij nederland 2012. | + | |
- | * since the 60's walking itself became a form of art by itself. | + | |
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*<fc #800000> Guido van der Werve</ | *<fc #800000> Guido van der Werve</ | ||
* Monty Python; Ministry of silly Walks: https:// | * Monty Python; Ministry of silly Walks: 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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+ | the songlines | ||
+ | wilfried hou je bek: algorithmic walking | ||
+ | cern walk | ||
+ | esther polak | ||
+ | sound walks... | ||
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