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Breathing-in-the-Breathable
Breathing-in-the-Breathable is a collaborative project by Robert Bean and Barbara Lounder, exploring walking as art and pedagogy. Through site-specific works across multiple locations, it engages with the environment, militarism, and climate crises, challenging histories and ideologies.
Closing reception for Walking, Lost and Found exhibition
Artist statement: I am pilgrim #15749 on the Walk of Wisdom, a self-guided path that winds through the eastern part of the Netherlands. In July 2024, a dear friend and I spent eight days walking alongside fields and waterways, atop dikes, up and down hills, through forests and sandy heaths. We walked through towns and villages, over bridges and canals, in sunshine and in rain. Walking made new learning possible. I learned to know the feel of different surfaces through the soles of my feet. I learned to know the strength of my own body and the endurance needed to keep putting one foot in front of another. I learned to greet new neighbors as we repeatedly encountered brambles and nettles, yarrow and rowanberry, gradually attuning myself to the surroundings and learning to listen in this place. The eight-part text of this sound piece is a meditation upon the rhythm of walking, getting lost and found, the strange becoming familiar as we learn to walk in a new way. ***The piece on exhibit here is a 2-channel version of an 8-channel sound piece that I made at the Sound Studies Institute, University of Alberta, Canada, in January 2025.
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Breathing-in-the-Breathable
Breathing-in-the-Breathable is a collaborative project by Robert Bean and Barbara Lounder, exploring walking as art and pedagogy. Through site-specific works across multiple locations, it engages with the environment, militarism, and climate crises, challenging histories and ideologies.
Closing reception for Walking, Lost and Found exhibition
Artist statement: I am pilgrim #15749 on the Walk of Wisdom, a self-guided path that winds through the eastern part of the Netherlands. In July 2024, a dear friend and I spent eight days walking alongside fields and waterways, atop dikes, up and down hills, through forests and sandy heaths. We walked through towns and villages, over bridges and canals, in sunshine and in rain. Walking made new learning possible. I learned to know the feel of different surfaces through the soles of my feet. I learned to know the strength of my own body and the endurance needed to keep putting one foot in front of another. I learned to greet new neighbors as we repeatedly encountered brambles and nettles, yarrow and rowanberry, gradually attuning myself to the surroundings and learning to listen in this place. The eight-part text of this sound piece is a meditation upon the rhythm of walking, getting lost and found, the strange becoming familiar as we learn to walk in a new way. ***The piece on exhibit here is a 2-channel version of an 8-channel sound piece that I made at the Sound Studies Institute, University of Alberta, Canada, in January 2025.
Can walking be considered as an artform? Yes! There is a growing international community of artists for whom walking is central to their artistic practice. This offers a very different, even subversive, perspective on what art might be. But how can walking be turned into art? Here we explore this question by attempting to perform walking scores and proposals produced by different walking artists, with rather variable results…
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Lynn Davy also participated in this work
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