Description
Book SynopsisThe experience and variety of walking practices have never been so broad, relevant or unpredictable. Walking Bodies charts some of their very latest developments. Editors Helen Billinghurst, Claire Hind and Phil Smith put out a call for artists, activists, academics, radical walkers and psychogeographers to discuss, perform and share their experiences of current walking cultures. In these essays, provocations, artworks and documentations, new terrains emerge and diverse energies and thinkings reflect the huge response to the initial call and the demand for tickets to the conference. 'Walking Bodies' evidences anxieties, exclusions and gradual but major changes of direction for walking arts, towards more considered and embodied practices that re-navigate their terrains and challenge assumptions about trajectories through the unhuman world. Here are the beginnings of differently negotiated, shared, provoked and provocative ambulations.
Table of ContentsIntroductions Magical Aesthetics: walking with eight legs - Sarah Scaife Walking in Tree Time - Duncan Hay, Leah Lovett, Martin de Jode, Andrew Hudson-Smith Dancing-Walking with Trees - Vicky Hunter Walking with Elephants - Cathy Turner Being Horse: walking as an impossible beast - James Frost and Sonia Overall Pigeon Steps - Gabrielle Hoad and Megan Calver Crow - Matt Fletcher Walking away? From deep mapping to mutual accompaniment - Iain Biggs Web Walking - Helen Billinghurst and Phil Smith The Artist-Scholar Walks: Passage to Else-Where - Ishita Jain How do our bodies act as instruments of sensory navigation? - Emma Bush Suriashi as a ceremonial, subversive act - Ami Skanberg Dahlstedt From Working to Walking - Chloe Lund Inspiral Undergrowth - Rachel Gomme The Sight of the Walker - William Sharpe Walking Diagrams - Helen Billinghurst Visiting Sutton Pool - Monali Meher Object Place Walking - Jody Oberfelder A Route Unscrambled - Gary Winters and Claire Hind Words from Walks - Hamish Fulton Quipu - Elspeth (Billie) Penfold The S Project - Carly Butler and Gudrun Filipska White Man Walking: Settler Ambulation in Colonised Spaces - Ken Wilson Walking-with whiteness - Richard S. White/Walknow The Meaning and Importance of Refusals - Sarah Harper Access Denied? Walking Art and Disabled People - Morag Rose Mind the Gap - Philippe Guillaume The Documentary Drift: Lutyens, Cockington and Poetry - Sam Kemp 'It started with a film and ended with a walk' - Sam Christie Chip Walks - Hilary Ramsden and Clare Qualmann Noble & King, Walking with Correspondence - Simon King and Corinne Noble Chasing Mists - Anna Sanders-Falcini On Mythogeosonics - John Bowers and Tim Shaw
