Ernesto Pujol
Ernesto Pujol is a social choreographer known for group-walking performances, empathically addressing secret collective histories and fragile landscapes under threat, ethically exploring and performatively revealing the psychic architecture of peoples and places globally. Pujol is the author of Sited Body, Public Visions: silence, stillness & walking as performance practice (Amazon, US, 2012), and Walking Art Practice: Reflections on Social Paths (Triarchy Press, London, 2018); as well as contributing articles and interviews to publications such as Fernweh: A Traveling Curators’ Project (Scotland, 2014), among other critical collections. In 2015, Pujol founded The Listening School, a travelling project of intimate workshops and contemplative, public-listening experiences. The artist has an MFA from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago, currently lives in Philadelphia, and continues to write, lecture, and perform.