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A curated starting point from this region.
Walking piece
Walking piece 2007

Mapa-Múndi/BR

Created by the artist during her driftings across Brazil, *Mapa-Múndi/Br* is a series of photographs of Brazilian signs that reference foreign continents, countries, regions, and cities.

Walking piece
Walking piece 2004

The Green Line

In the summer of 1995 I performed a walk with a leaking can of blue paint in the city of São Paulo. The walk was then read as a poetic gesture of sorts. In June 2004, I re-enacted that same performance with a leaking can of green paint by tracing a line following the portion of the ‘Green Line’ that runs through the municipality of Jerusalem.

video 2020  

Interview with Francis Alÿs

Based in Mexico City since the late 1980s, Belgium-born artist Francis Alÿs is known for his performative projects staged around the world.

video 2004  

Francis Alÿs – The Green Line

Alÿs strolled through what he referred to as the typical city of conflict. His route somehow followed the village in Jerusalem of the ceasefire demarcation line1 separating Palestinian and Israeli communities since the end of the 1948 Israel War of Independence.

Walking piece
Walking piece 2021

Gnowing me, Knowing You: Questions raised by walking the labyrinth in the maze

This post examines Helen Curry’s suggested reflective questions for labyrinth walkers and explores the labyrinth’s historical and symbolic significance as a spatial pattern fostering introspection and spiritual growth. It also discusses the contrast between labyrinth and maze navigation through the lens of hermeneutical theory, drawing on the author’s experience of the interactive installation Labyrinthe (2021) to argue for the productive interplay between these two forms in the learning process.

Walking as a Question

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The cost of Jerusalem

European budget airlines wouldn’t be European budget airlines, if they didn’t try to squeeze their targets in every possible way. So, Wizzair still charges you extra if you prefer to check in at the counter, instead of online.But, after doing so, I was told I had to present myself at the counter, anyway. Supposedly for …

Babak Fakhamzadeh

GPS, geo-poetic system

Geo-poetic system was a term coined by Lucy Frears during locative media art research (published 2017). The basis of geopoetics, a theory and practice developed by Scottish philosopher and poet Kenneth White, is to connect humans to the lines of the earth (White cited in McManus 2007: 183), or ‘what’s out there’ (Ingold 1993; 154; White 2005: 200; White 2006: 9). The contact White describes is often between the human mind and the earth, what he calls ‘landscape-mindscape’ (Legendre 2011: 121). Because of the embodied nature of locative media experiences using a smartphone in landscape for these walking art experiences using gps technologies Frears expanded this notion to being ‘landscape-mindscape-bodyscape’ (2017).

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