A blog about the uses of walking in art by Ana Laura Lopez de la Torre.
“When you walk,” according to an introduction to an interview with the Canadian philosopher Brain Massumi, “each step is the body’s movement against falling — each movement is felt in our potential for freedom as we move with the earth’s gravitational pull. When we navigate our way through the world, there are different pulls, constraints [...]
Guy Debord outlines the psychogeographic practice of the dérive in his essay ‘Theory of the Derive’ which was first published in 1956 and reprinted in the Situationist International in 1958. The dérive, as Debord explains, is a theoretically charged stroll, usually in urban environments. Debord gives us the curious and amusing line: ‘Wandering in open [...]
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