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?
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.
Hosted by Lora Aziz, co-chair of the WTN Arts & Culture Task Force and Andrew Stuck, from walk · listen · create, we bring you panels of thought leaders, trail professionals and walking artists to discuss key themes.
We have invited four experts to share their knowledge and experience in artistic practice that is embedded within pilgrimage landscapes and communities. Professor Kathryn Barush author of Imaging Pilgrimage: Art as Embodied Experience, who joined us in our opening On Pilgrimage event, will be joined by 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.
Read summaries of previous events in the On Pilgrimage series here and or watch the video recordings of the events from our archive.
Further events in series include:
7th July – Stories from the road – Walking writing, sound, photography and archives
4th August – Communities and Trails – Local voices, custodianship and care
Concurrent with this series of online events we are also running a poetry writing competition on pilgrimage – read more here.
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