Artists working along routes and in landscapes
Art has been entwined with pilgrimage from the outset, in iconography and relics, object attribution and travel souvenirs, music and folklore, and more recently in walking performances. Does a pilgrimage route become an open-air studio exhibiting the pilgrim experience?
Presenters included: Professor Kathryn Barush author of Imaging Pilgrimage: Art as Embodied Experience, Clara Gari, curator of the El Grand Tour and The Walking Assembly, commissioned recently by Foro Cultura y Ruralidades of the Spanish Ministry of Culture to curate Walking Art activities on the Camino de Santiago, Roxana Perez-Mendes of Campo Research Studio directs Drawn to the Camino, an artist residency and study abroad programme that brings students onto the Camino de Santiago, and Professor William Sharpe, author of The Art of Walking: a history in 100 images.
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