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Molly Wagner

(Australia)
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Australian Walking Artists

Kim V. Goldsmith
Molly Wagner
Amy Tsilemanis

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Molly walks in the urban, suburban, and rural landscapes using a variety of media to evoke the complex interactions intrinsic to walking. She is intrigued by the artistic, sensory, speculative, and critical potential walking brings to art. Walking crosses paths with numerous disciplines and allows Molly to express her varied interests in the arts and humanities.
Molly published No Trespassing! The Art and Politics of Walking in New South Wales in 2022, that describes her walks from Sydney to Bathurst. She attended two International Walking Art Conferences in Europe where the fellowship of other Walking Artists inspired her to facilitate the Australian Walking Artists collective.
Molly lives and works in Sydney, NSW on the land of the Gadigal-Wangul People of the Eora Nation. She attended the National Art School and the UNSW School of Art and Design, completing a first-class Honours in 2016. Molly works as an independent artist and high school teacher.
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pedestrian acts

By de Certeau: In “Walking in the City”, de Certeau conceives pedestrianism as a practice that is performed in the public space, whose architecture and behavioural habits substantially determine the way we walk. For de Certeau, the spatial order “organises an ensemble of possibilities (e.g. by a place in which one can move) and interdictions (e.g. by a wall that prevents one from going further)” and the walker “actualises some of these possibilities” by performing within its rules and limitations. “In that way,” says de Certeau, “he makes them exist as well as emerge.” Thus, pedestrians, as they walk conforming to the possibilities that are brought about by the spatial order of the city, constantly repeat and re-produce that spatial order, in a way ensuring its continuity. But, a pedestrian could also invent other possibilities. According to de Certeau, “the crossing, drifting away, or improvisation of walking privilege, transform or abandon spatial elements.” Hence, the pedestrians could, to a certain extent, elude the discipline of the spatial order of the city. Instead of repeating and re-producing the possibilities that are allowed, they can deviate, digress, drift away, depart, contravene, disrupt, subvert, or resist them. These acts, as he calls them, are pedestrian acts.

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