Depending on where it takes place, along with its political, social or environmental context, walking can take on a different meaning. Why do we walk? Out of obligation, for pleasure, to feel the world? The body through its senses, i.e. sight, hearing, touch, smell, taste, and movement, perceives sounds, images, smells, elements, situations, energies.Can walking reveal more? Can it question, transform, enrich a creative process? The Vaste et Vague Artist Center invites artists to explore these numerous questions through a tandem walk—at a distance.For the occasion, eight artists from Quebec will be paired with eight Prespa participants from abroad; thus, a total of sixteen artists will enter into dialogue. Our approach is nondirective, inviting each of the pairs to find and address their own question. A free, online version of the I Ching, a traditional game in which players are randomly presented with philosophical thoughts, will be used to open the dialogue.This is an invitation to explore site-specific in dialogue live.
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Crypsis
Crypsis is a geolocated immersive audio play set in Cincinnati’s Eden Park, where participants choose to experience myths of Persephone and Inanna as they accompany a narrator on a unique path home. The work is available as an in-person walk via Echoes and as a video version through Hapyak for remote viewers.
Walking as a Question : towards the walking arts encounters/conference in Prespa, July 2021
Introduction and presentation for all interested in local or on distance participation to the Walking Arts Encounters / Conference in Prespa 2021. Walking Processes in Prespa: 2019 and 2021 On Wednesday, March 17, 2021, at 20:00, there will be an online announcement and presentation of the International Encounters / Conference Walking as a Question that
• Water connections Prespa
We invite you to explore Prespa, a national park and lake at the border of Greece, Albania and North Macedonia, and a venue of art practice for almost two decades. Art and science, biology and ecology meet in an evening with two panels about Prespa, water and arts, in a dialogue with artists, researchers, scientists and ecologists, a confluence of the Prespa lake with Oika in the US, the El Hondo Wetland in Spain, the wet meadows of Somerset Levels and the waters of Yarun (Bribie Island) in Australia.
• +3 Choose Your Own (Sonic) Adventure
Led by Helena Krobath Sunday, October 3, 2021; 4-5:30PM (approx. 1 hour total walking time, followed by a half hour open discussion) Meeting Location: Front steps of the Vancouver Public Library Main Branch (350 W Georgia St, Vancouver, BC) ***IMPORTANT NOTE: Soundwalks are free, but capacity is limited. Participants MUST register in advance here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/soundwalk-choose-your-own-sonic-adventure-tickets-172318036887
Tree-Feeling Walk, a Psychogeographic Survey
A walk to an urban tree. How do I feel about this tree? How am I when we are together? How does the tree encourage me to behave? We are part of a tree’s ecosystem. We will have a conversation about this and refer to our feelings and sensations in order to do so. The
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Dear Sophie, I was very taken by your presentation last night and would like to follow up. There are many similarities and shared concerns. Unfortunately I could not attend your walking event, due to work commitments. Not sure how to pursue an online encounter. Having lived for several years within a community whose cosmology perceives nature as kin, I would be interested – in the first instance – to what extent the visceral experience of cohabiting a place embraced by different narratives/forms of sense making has guided your thinking and relationship to place? As I listened to you I also thought of the work by anthropologist Erik Mueggler who has been pursuing similar questions albeit in the context of the Yi and the Nahki people in Western China. I look forward to hearing from you. Petra Johnson. PS This is a link to a publication on the work of Lijiang Studio by Stephanie Lu, a curator I worked with, on Hong Kong University Website https://ecoartasia.net/LJS/LJS_eng.html
And Lenke knows more about my work, she attended my remote talk at the Prespa conference. Thanks for your presentation. Petra