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The Collector

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Mexico City, Mexico

daily walks

Collection · 27 items

Mexico

Collection · 25 items
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streets

Sub-collection · 16 items

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Danzar o Morir on the Sierra Tarahumara paths

The long-distance running and ritual dance among the Ralámuli of Mexico’s Sierra Tarahumara is a practice that holds the power to heal and sustain the world. Author Sylvie Marchand has lived among them for years and reflects on this ritual through a dialogue of perspectives: that of Erasmo Palma, Ralámuli poet and cultural guide, and

Sylvie Marchand
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Blato project

This project started by discovering the town of Blato, Croatia through daily walks. This website is my writing and process of the starting point for the work/walk "Walk[in] Past"

Walking piece

Guards

Guards (2004) is a video installation with sound documenting a performance orchestrated by the Belgian-born artist Francis Alÿs. It is one part of the “Seven Walks” series commissioned by Artangel.

Francis Alÿs
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WALC Confluence 3 hosted by Gigacircus, with guest Gustavo Alvarez

Part funded by the EU Create Europe Programme, this Confluence event was hosted by Gigacircus, the French partner in the Walking Arts & Local Communities project known as WALC. They chose their guest as Mexican performance artist Gustavo Gonzales, who in the video provides a presention to his extensive portfolio of actions undertaken in the

Gustavo Alvarez Sylvie Marchand +1

daily walks

Collection · 27 items

Mexico

Collection · 25 items
Sub-collection

streets

Sub-collection · 16 items

Related

post

Danzar o Morir on the Sierra Tarahumara paths

The long-distance running and ritual dance among the Ralámuli of Mexico’s Sierra Tarahumara is a practice that holds the power to heal and sustain the world. Author Sylvie Marchand has lived among them for years and reflects on this ritual through a dialogue of perspectives: that of Erasmo Palma, Ralámuli poet and cultural guide, and

Sylvie Marchand
url

Blato project

This project started by discovering the town of Blato, Croatia through daily walks. This website is my writing and process of the starting point for the work/walk "Walk[in] Past"

Walking piece

Guards

Guards (2004) is a video installation with sound documenting a performance orchestrated by the Belgian-born artist Francis Alÿs. It is one part of the “Seven Walks” series commissioned by Artangel.

Francis Alÿs
video

WALC Confluence 3 hosted by Gigacircus, with guest Gustavo Alvarez

Part funded by the EU Create Europe Programme, this Confluence event was hosted by Gigacircus, the French partner in the Walking Arts & Local Communities project known as WALC. They chose their guest as Mexican performance artist Gustavo Gonzales, who in the video provides a presention to his extensive portfolio of actions undertaken in the

Gustavo Alvarez Sylvie Marchand +1
Walking piece
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A magnetized metal collector taking a daily walk.

For an indeterminate period of time, the magnetized metal collector (it looks roughly like a geometric dog on wheels) takes a daily walk through the streets and gradually builds up a coat mad of any metallic residue lying in its path. This process goes on until the collector is completely covered by its trophies.

Credits

In collaboration with Felipe Sanabria.

APA style reference

Alÿs, F. (1991). The Collector. walk · listen · create. https://walklistencreate.org/walkingpiece/the-collector/
Submitted by: Babak Fakhamzadeh

jaywalking

Crossing a street or highway not at an official cross walk or signalled controlled junction; in North America it is an offence for which you can be fined.

Added by Andrew Stuck
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