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Walking piece 1961

Stand Erect

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"Sneak Review", film still/score, B.Patterson "From Methods & Processes Stand Erect", performed by B.Patterson and others.

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Embodiment or Mind Body Connection

Sub-collection · 29 items

Fluxus

Collection · 12 items

Scores

Collection · 57 items

The Everyday

Collection · 50 items
Sub-collection

Embodiment or Mind Body Connection

Sub-collection · 29 items

Fluxus

Collection · 12 items

Scores

Collection · 57 items

The Everyday

Collection · 50 items
Benjamin Patterson’s Stand Erect (1961) exemplifies walking instructions as art, focusing on movement patterns. The participant becomes part of the artwork, while Patterson guides and controls the body, mediating between the actor and their physicality.

Benjamin Patterson’s Stand Erect, first published in his 1961 artist’s book Methods and Processes is one of many examples of the artistic instructions on walking. He emphasizes the act, the pattern of movement of a participant – who becomes a part of the art piece – and seemingly takes control over their body, as a mentor and as a mediator between the actor and their physicality.

stand erect
place body weight on right foot
lift left leg and foot with bent knee several inches
above ground while balancing on right foot
extend left leg forward and place foot on ground, heel first,
several inches ahead and to left of right foot
shift body weight to left foot
lift right leg and foot with bent knee several inches
above ground while balancing on left foot
extend right leg forward and place foot on ground, heel first,
several inches ahead and to the right of left foot
shift body weight to right foot
continue sequentially left, right, left, right until process
becomes automatic

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OBLITCOVA, Iuliia. The culture of walking: creating spaces for wanderers and community along the Via Francigena. Fakultät für Architektur und Raumplanung, Technische Universität Wien, Wien.

APA style reference

Patterson, B. (1961). Stand Erect. walk · listen · create. https://walklistencreate.org/walkingpiece/stand-erect/
Submitted by: Dani Spadotto

GPS, geo-poetic system

Geo-poetic system was a term coined by Lucy Frears during locative media art research (published 2017). The basis of geopoetics, a theory and practice developed by Scottish philosopher and poet Kenneth White, is to connect humans to the lines of the earth (White cited in McManus 2007: 183), or ‘what’s out there’ (Ingold 1993; 154; White 2005: 200; White 2006: 9). The contact White describes is often between the human mind and the earth, what he calls ‘landscape-mindscape’ (Legendre 2011: 121). Because of the embodied nature of locative media experiences using a smartphone in landscape for these walking art experiences using gps technologies Frears expanded this notion to being ‘landscape-mindscape-bodyscape’ (2017).

Added by Lucy Frears
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