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On Walking by Phil Smith
The post brings two new books on walking, from the UK. On the cover, photographs of lush vegetation bring back pleasant memories from rural and urban walks across green-grassed, greyed-sky Britain. The first book On Walking, opens with a long subtitle. The author – artist, writer, playwright, performer, academic, counter-tourist – owns up to “stalking […]
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The website "WalkArt" hosted on WordPress is a dedicated platform exploring the intersection of walking, art, and cultural geography. It documents and analyzes practices where walking is employed as an artistic and research method to engage with places, landscapes, and urban environments. The content includes essays, project descriptions, and reflections that examine how walking can reveal the sociocultural, political, and environmental dimensions of specific sites, often emphasizing sensory experience and embodied knowledge.
The site also curates and archives various walking-based art projects, events, and exhibitions, highlighting the diversity of approaches in this field. It situates walking art within broader discourses such as psychogeography, place studies, and site-specific art, contributing to critical understandings of space and movement. By focusing on the artistic and geographical implications of walking, the platform serves as a resource for researchers, artists, and practitioners interested in the cultural geographies of mobility and place-making.
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