Ernesto Pujol here combines elements from an art book, field journal and
walkers' manifesto. It is a text for performative artists, art students,
and all who walk as cultural activism. Walking Art Practice is a
collection of intimate reflections by the author, which bring together
his experiences as a former monk, performance artist, social
choreographer and educator.
They serve as a provocation, walkers' manifesto and teaching guide for
walking as mindful cultural activism.
This book is an invitation to:
- Rethink what it means to walk and explore different ways in which to
walk as: a cultural practice a meditative practice a radical practice
art healing social engagement.
- Reconsider how to attend to the inner and outer landscape whilst
walking.
- Treat walking as a performance resource.
- Walk as an everyday pilgrimage.
- Walk slowly, walk in and with awareness, walk with and without skill,
walk to regain and to lose control...
"Artists are trying to move away from the influence of competitive
corporate culture that has increasingly defined art as an abrasive urban
career. Artists are trying to replace this with the humbler notion of
art as a practice, as a mindful way of life, consisting of consciously
creative gestures, visible and invisible, large and small. Art practice
is a private and public, selfless and generous, creative life process
resulting in a conscious cultural product."
