Meet the authors who are writing about walking and the landscapes through which we walk, at Walking Writers Salons. We are delighted to welcome art critic and historian Lori Waxman who will be talking with Babak Fakhamzadeh about her book Keep Walking Intently, a seminal history of walking art in the Twentieth century.
Lead art critic at the Chicago Tribune, Lori Waxman has a keen eye for what is art and what is not. In Keep Walking Intently, she casts a critical eye on walking as an art form, and how its roots stem from the initiatives of Parisian political art activists of the early twentieth century, and how their intervention influenced subsequent key art movements, including the Situationists and Fluxus.
Babak Fakhamzadeh has long held a fascination for the the work of the Situationists, and is the co-developer of the ever-popular Dérive app, often used by students studying art history under the tutelage of Lori Waxman at the School of the Art Institute in Chicago.
Walking Writers Salons are hour-long events in which you will get to meet a Walking Writer and learn from them how they weave writing and walking, and how they interpret their surroundings. Each Salon will include a discussion with the author, inviting questions from the audience, and may include a multiple choice quiz or other amusing challenge, in which a winner will receive a prize.
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