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On Pilgrimage 1 – Pilgrimage Today

Working alongside the World Trails Network (WTN), a community of trail management and tourism providers, that include many traditional pilgrimage routes and trails that now accommodate secular pilgrims, we are running a series of online events to discuss the roles walking art plays in pilgrimage and vice versa.

Our guests on this opening event include Professor Kathryn Barush author of Imaging Pilgrimage: Art as Embodied ExperienceGuy Hayward, Director and Co-founder of the British Pilgrimage Trust, and András Molnár from the Budapest Pilgrims Centre and World Trails network representative.

Chaired by Lora Aziz, co-chair of the WTN Arts & Culture Task Force and Andrew Stuck walk · listen · create, we bring you panels of thought leaders, trail professionals and walking artists to discuss Pilgrimage Today

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Pilgrimage today

Modern day pilgrimage is growing in popularity – every year numbers grow along some of the oldest and most traditional pilgrimage routes.  Pilgrimage has been practised for millennia and is shared by all the world’s major religions, on every continent  – there isn’t a day when a pilgrimage is being undertaken.  In days gone by,

Lora Aziz Andrew Stuck +3
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Art on the Pilgrim Path

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

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Powers of Pilgrimage: Religion in a World of Movement

While pilgrimage often focuses on sacred shrines, it can also occur in apparently mundane places. Indeed, not everyone has the resources or mobility to take part in religiously inspired movement to foreign lands, and some find meaning in religious movement closer to home and outside of officially sanctioned practices. This book argues that we must question

Simon Coleman
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Maria’s Way

An observational documentary which allows a glimpse into the ways of the modern pilgrim and a woman who awaits their arrival at her small slice of the Camino de Santiago.

Anne Milne
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On This Holy Island: A modern pilgrimage across Britain

Oliver Smith embarks on an epic adventure across sacred British landscapes – climbing into remote sea caves, sleeping inside Neolithic tombs, scaling forgotten holy mountains and once marooning himself at sea. Following holy roads to churches, cathedrals and standing stones, this evocative and enlightening travelogue explores places prehistoric, pagan and Christian, but also reveals how

Oliver Smith

pedestrian acts

By de Certeau: In “Walking in the City”, de Certeau conceives pedestrianism as a practice that is performed in the public space, whose architecture and behavioural habits substantially determine the way we walk. For de Certeau, the spatial order “organises an ensemble of possibilities (e.g. by a place in which one can move) and interdictions (e.g. by a wall that prevents one from going further)” and the walker “actualises some of these possibilities” by performing within its rules and limitations. “In that way,” says de Certeau, “he makes them exist as well as emerge.” Thus, pedestrians, as they walk conforming to the possibilities that are brought about by the spatial order of the city, constantly repeat and re-produce that spatial order, in a way ensuring its continuity. But, a pedestrian could also invent other possibilities. According to de Certeau, “the crossing, drifting away, or improvisation of walking privilege, transform or abandon spatial elements.” Hence, the pedestrians could, to a certain extent, elude the discipline of the spatial order of the city. Instead of repeating and re-producing the possibilities that are allowed, they can deviate, digress, drift away, depart, contravene, disrupt, subvert, or resist them. These acts, as he calls them, are pedestrian acts.

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