The Walking Encyclopaedia - DAY THREE - pigeon holing

Eric Steen - Beers Made by Walking - leaflets, menus, documentation

Three days in to the Walking Encyclopaedia, and after sorting through all the physical submissions, and photographing each exhibit, ready for the hang next week, thoughts turned to categories.

If Eskimos famously have more than 20 words for snow, equally there are dozens of different terms for what is essentially putting one foot in front of another.

When you apply the activity to an arts context, with the myriad of contextual and conceptual and historical connotations that involves, then it seems there might be a series of categories which the act of walking as a cultural practice could be divided up in to.




So we mailed out to The Walking Artists Network for suggestions - what could the categories be? - how would one categorise one's own practice?

Here's a start of a list which might grow throughout the Exhibition.

WALKING CATEGORIES

FROM AIRSPACE GALLERY
performance

mapping 

psychogeography

exploration

drift/derive

FROM ERIC STEEN

Education

Social Engagement

Discovery

FROM WALTER SIEGFRIED

enhanced perception

FROM KATJA MUENKER

performance

performance installation

walk

hike

experience

intervention

FROM KELLY RANKIN

wanderlust

contemplation

meditation

FROM CHRISTOPHER MOLLON

Liminal

Durational

Ephemeral 

Action

Intertidal

Rural

(Urban)

Site-specific

Site-responsive

FROM STEPH BRADLEY

Pilgrimage

Social Commentary (Collecting & Sharing Stories/News)

Oral History ( Storytelling/Troubadour/Minstrel)

Community Building

Reconnection ( to place, self, other, nature, spirit, soul)

FROM TRAVIS SOUZA

Psychogeography

Education/Research

Politics

Drawing