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Sited Body, Public Visions: silence, stillness & walking as Performance Practice

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WALC Confluence 6 hosted by Nau Côclea documenting walking art, featuring Ernesto Pujol.

How do you document Walking art? Asks your host, Clara Gari from Nau Côclea. For some artists documenting their work is a process of making a further an artwork in itself, for others the walk is the document. In 1998, the CDAN (The Centre of Art & Nature) in Huesca, Spain, commissioned a piece for

Clara Gari Ernesto Pujol +2
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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.

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radicant backpack

This device is a fragment of an exposition that I called “radicant biomap” at MARQ. Buenos Aires. A line, a horizon that cannot stop and through the inherited and sustained plain defines a map that proposes the march. Ephemeral roots that only leave temporary traces to move like the radicals towards a destiny made of condensations of strokes, to generate a more fluid cartography through time that not only repeats situations, but creates new scenarios between the urban, the rural areas and the delicious spaces in between. A map of a new condition, which moves us and moves us towards new experiences in the territory to once again apprehend the inner turmoil of life. Jh @jesushuarte.arte @territoriodearquitectura Buenos Aires. Argentina.

Maria Jesús Huarte
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Mars door Amsterdam

Unwary pedestrians, tram passengers, and motorists look on in surprise when they see a spectacle rolling through the center of Amsterdam. In the “March through Amsterdam” that took place on Friday, December 6, 1963, but the march did not have a demonstrative character; it is nothing more than a formation of six gentlemen who are apparently deliberately following a route.

Wim T. Schippers Willem de Ridder
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Bivouac metaverse – artistic residence and creation

The Bivouac residency training took place in Villefagnan between the 13 and 22 of May 2024. The first task of the residence was for Sylvie to share with us the concepts leading «THE MIGRATING BODY» project.

Fred Adam Sylvie Marchand

Sited Body, Public Visions: silence, stillness & walking as Performance Practice (2012) is the “bodybiography” of social choreographer Ernesto Pujol, known for designing durational, silent, walking performances as socially engaged public art across cities. Through early childhood memories, queer adult anecdotes, letters exchanged with other artists, and generous performance notes, the author opens and shares his public process.


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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