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‘Walk Upon our Sweet and Blessed Land!’ : Exploring Walking, Complex Embodiment and Shared Space
Abstract: Building upon the disciplines of Truman, Shannon, and Springgay, this work discusses the complexities of inhabiting a crip, queer, black, or otherwise “othered” body while interacting with natural spaces and shared public spaces. The work would be categorized as a sound essay presented as a binaural, somewhat immersive soundwalk in an attempt to underscore
Breathing-in-the-Breathable
Breathing-in-the-Breathable is a collaborative project by Robert Bean and Barbara Lounder, exploring walking as art and pedagogy. Through site-specific works across multiple locations, it engages with the environment, militarism, and climate crises, challenging histories and ideologies.
Walk the Line
Lauren Brincat's Walk the Line explores borders, territory, and disappearance through walking. Filmed at Cape Leeuwin, Australia, the video contrasts geological formations, dunes, and ocean, invoking both physical and metaphorical boundaries in a haunting, solitary performance.
Walk the Walk
In Walk the Walk (2010), Kate Gilmore creates a yellow cubic structure in Bryant Park where women in yellow dresses perform everyday movements from 8:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Mirroring a full workday, the piece explores gender, labor, rhythm, and self-expression in public space.
AW Walks to the West Bank of the French Broad
AW Walks to the West Bank of the French Broad is a long-form work for fixed audio and live lap steel guitar. Urban walks from Lamplight gallery to different points on the French Broad River in Asheville, NC accompanied by improvised vocalizations.
