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Some years ago Kristine Samson und Sanne Krogh Grogh proposed the Audio Paper bringing together audio, performance and text in a new and hybrid format. This concept was extended into a new form of audio walk, during the Walking Arts Encounters / Conference in Prespa. Writers of these audio papers are invited to talk at this Walk Listen Café.
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Three quarters of the way up a mountain in the rugged Cairngorms of rural Scotland is a site that was precious to women for generations. We walk this mountain to search for this site, exploring what significance it holds for the modern day.
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The Camino de Santiago has been a journey for pilgrims for more than 1,000 years, testing―to varying degrees―their spirit, faith, and physical endurance. Lyndon Penner’s attention lies elsewhere. A renowned gardener and lover of literature, he revels in the plants, trees, and flowers that tell the history of the people and ecology of northern Spain.
This Audio Paper was mainly recorded on the North Pilgrim’s Way in North Wales, and The Two Saints Way between Cheshire and Lichfield in England. I walked initially with with Father Robert Icke, a friend and Anglican Priest and my other friend, Dr Kris Darby, who has also been interested in the performative act of walking for a number of years. This discussion builds on my newly published chapter exploring the efficacy of pain and suffering in pilgrimage, in addition to the mind/body experience (published in ‘The Performances of Sacred Places: Crossing, Breathing, Resisting’, Silvia Battista (Ed.), Intellect).
My emerging argument is for the processual importance of the route itself rather than the final fixed venue and therefore for the increasing relevance of the experience of pilgrimage in a secular context. For this paper I have walked an ancient route over 160km, discussing the relationship of meditation and repetition en route to the possibly penitential experience of pain and exhaustion. Whilst doing so we discussed the well-trodden path, the impact of nature, the experience of weather and the crucial relationship of these external factors on both the liminoid quest for renewal (or in the Catholic tradition, indulgence) and our sense of mortality in the experience of nature.
A Secular Pilgrim
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