Beyond technology, walking towards the future
Leaving the Walking Arts Encounters in Prespa a few weeks ago, was returning from an utopical space of walking together towards future “Visions for walking”, and the summer accelerated into a series of consecutive projects in Gramos (Greek - Albanian border), Cairo and Rio de Janeiro, inviting me to think and talk about walking and technology. Together with Jez Hastings, Yanis Ziogas and a group of (digital) artists working in two teams, one group walking along the mountain paths of the Greek civil war and the refugees of today at the border of Greece and Albania, the other group receiving and processing the physical walk in digital outcomes in a project called “Gramos. Perceivers and receivers”, leading to an exhibition this autumn.
Leaving the utter silence and coolness of Gramos mountains, for the chaotic and scorching Cairo, to be present at the opening of the digital walking project “Painting Stories, Forgotten Routes”.
Through psychogeography, the project links forgotten stories of the past, shifting away from what is conventionally known of modern Egyptian art, mapping the location where historical art events took place and the sites that inspired paintings in a holistic manner.
This was followed by an invitation to talk at a seminar in the Museum of Contemporary Art of Niteroi/Rio de Janeiro, together with collectives of Brazilian walking artists and with Transeuntis Mundi, at the opening of the VR exhibition “Derive 01” last weekend.
Conclusion of these drifts in place and virtual space is that walking humanizes technology, part of walking as an aesthetic practice since the early 21st century. en extends technology into the realm of senses. The future lies in walking together, and collective creative approaches, establishing communities, connecting people, with a planet in crisis, with each other, with their places, with ancestral knowledge, through collective learning and the potential of new technologies to connect in new ways with places and others.
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Write About Walking is what our 2022/3 writers-in-residence, Tony Horitz (poetry) and Cheryl Markosky (prose) are encouraging you to do, with the theme of "Walking Away" for this year's writing competition.
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