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Keep Walking Intently
Meet the authors who are writing about walking and the landscapes through which we walk, at Walking Writers Salons. We are delighted to welcome art critic and historian Lori Waxman who will be talking with Babak Fakhamzadeh about her book Keep Walking Intently, a seminal history of walking art in the Twentieth century. Lead art critic
• A history of walking art
Next Tuesday, February 11, we have Lori Waxman as a guest in our next Walking Writers Salon, where Lori and I discuss her book Keep Walking Intently, on the ambulatory art of the Surrealists, the Situationist International, and Fluxus. To whet your appetite, and to prepare you for our discussion, here's an overview of Lori's excellent book.
• Reclaiming the Margins: Walking, Art, and Resistance, with Lori Waxman
Earlier this year, we had the pleasure of hosting Lori Waxman, art critic and historian, at our online event Keep Walking Intently, inspired by Lori's book with the same name. The video registration is available online, and below you can find a writeup of Babak Fakhamzadeh's interview with Lori.
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Aurora dos Campos
Aurora dos Campos is a set designer, artist and researcher. She holds a PhD in Fine Arts from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto [FBAUP], having received a grant from the Foundation for Science and Technology [FCT] for her research entitled “Fictionalising Matter ∩ Materialising Fiction: The Artistic Practice of a Set Designer”. She is a research fellow at the Institute for Research in Art, Design and Society [I2ADS]. She holds a Master’s degree in Art and Design for Public Space from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto, with the dissertation “Dramaturgies of the Everyday: Speculations on the Fictional Dimension of the Real” [FBAUP | 2019] and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Performing Arts with a specialisation in set design from the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro [UNIRIO | 2006].
The Lucky Trikes: Listening Pasts – Listening Futures
Storyteller Deirdre Harrison brings this storytelling chamber band that has been delighting intergenerational audiences since 2014. Dynamic, interactive readings of well-known and award-winning books are accompanied by improvised and composed music.
Walking, that most basic of human actions, was transformed in the twentieth century by Surrealism, the Situationist International, and Fluxus into a tactic for revolutionizing everyday life. Each group chose locations in the urban landscape as sites—from the flea markets and bars of Paris to the sidewalks of New York—and ambulation as the essential gesture. Keep Walking Intently traces the meandering and peculiar footsteps of these avant-garde artists as they moved through the city, encountering the marvelous, studying the environment, and re-enchanting the banal. Art historian Lori Waxman reveals the radical potential that walking holds for us all.
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