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video 2010  

Walking Sculpture with Michelangelo Pistoletto

On a visit by Michelangelo Pistoletto to Philadelphia, to celebrate the opening of two major exhibitions devoted to his work, the artist recreated his Scultura Da Passeggio (Walking Sculpture), a seminal 'action' first performed in 1967 on the streets of Turin, Italy.

video 2024  

walking Valentino park Torino

Saturday afternoon I will walk through the Valentino Park in Turin: it will probably be a windy day.

Curated news 28 Mar, 2020

A Journey Round my Room (1794 / 1871)

Xavier de Maistre’s delightful parody of contemporary travel-writing written while under a six-week house-arrest in Turin. Source: A Journey Round my Room (1794 / 1871) – The Public Domain Review

flakkari

“Icelandic culture is infused with stories of travel. When names were needed for modern machines, the technology that enables our imaginations to travel, words were chosen that centred on the quality of roaming. Thus the neologism for laptop is fartölva, formed from the verb far, meaning to migrate, and tölva – migrating computer’; its companion, the external hard drive, is a flakkari. The latter word can also mean ‘wanderer’ or ‘vagrant’. In the end it’s the wanderers we rely on.” From Nancy Campbell’s “The Library of Ice”.

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