the modern artist might tread for treasure with a camera-phone or a minidisk recorder, sampling for their archive or blog, preparing a study of their locale. These surrogate senses are the newest popular methods of data collection. Affordable technologies are increasingly integrated, photographs captured via camera-phone can be beamed via Bluetooth to another handset, or sent with a text message to any other phone in the world, capacity permitting.
Photographers tend to walk a lot. Nature photographers must pass through their chosen environment, always looking for a new subject. Landscape photographers need a vantage point to capture a feature in full. Architects might tour with a camera, making notes on the buildings and layouts.
The unusual details found within ordinary views, uncommon features that could appear on almost every high street in England, are collected by Jan Williams and Chris Teasdale of the Caravan Gallery. Their practice is to tour the country in their caravan, stop, get out and take photos. Selected prints are later glued to backing and mounted inside the caravan, which is parked in an accessible place and open to all to explore, then talk about Englishness with the proprietors
Visual artists may tend to look for details pleasing to the eye, conceptual for the mind. With the landscape being mined for interesting objects all the time, surely the limits will render the subsequent art as familiar as the themes and views themselves. It is what is done with the information that makes things different, exciting or unfamiliar...not just a slideshow of other people's graffiti accompanied by a careless string of gallery jargon.
Walking as a resource
Walking as a time for planning
Walking as practice
Walking as an opportunbiyty for practice
Writers who walk might be collecting stories, criticising the placement of crossings or describing the behaviour of strangers. Poets aiming to catch the . All fiction is fraud, perhaps a version of the truth, if the truth is a first hand experience, which can only be personal and therefore subjective.
Walking is the method of transport which gives artists the most natural relationship with land, a patient pace, firmly grounded, earthed even.
Documentary. Fiction research. Incidental discovery,
artist: nature photographer
name
quote [email interview]
photo with title and source information in bibliography [list of images]
types of walk/walkers: [singular/plural]
hiker
rambler
backpacker
wayfarer
foot-slogger
pedestrian
list of art types!
watercolour landscape
spray-paint/stencil
Darius & Downey - street art
Liebidow
Out/doors [location-country-climate]
Terrain: tame/wild/mix [what is?]
feeling, atmosphere - artist's disposition - reaction to environment - effect upon art - the feeling of being in a specific place - altered state/s in a specific place
travel writer
journalist
Interview question:
Does walking have a place in your practice? Is so, could you describe it?
Venue
person is walking in 'x' because __________________.
Relationship: walking/artist - a 'me' and a place
How walking [in a place] leads to art?
internal
external
communication - art is out
moving
walk in environment = input
walk in environment = solo time for thinking/planning
classical painters - eye - media timeline
media + senses - what about textures? Natural objects as materials/basis of study?
gap between experience of walking [the specific walk or common walks within a specific area]
direct/indirect reference
how altered? names? how recognisable? identity of environment - by type/category or by specifics
In their documentary about street art, XXXXX, the American duo Darius & Downey present another side of a practice often associated with destruction and vandalism. Their aim is to beautify the city. During their walks they are constantly looking for new opportunities for subversion [black only phone etc] [London trip green man]
Outdoor installations [using the pedestrian environment as a place of display]
Performance [entering the rules of a highly populated pedestrian zone]
Eye level, above and below
Advertising, posters, fliers, billboards, stickers, spray-paint, graffiti...
URBIS
Lowry's documentation of Manchester
practiced by thousands of American youths [now global] brought to the commercial art world by the likes of Keith Haring and Jean Michele Basquiat, who would both traipse the city eyeing spots eager for a daubing.
Anthropological
Documentary
Photojournalism
Topography
Pictorialism
War reportage
walking and waiting
walking and not stopping
self imposed rules during walk
walking and following
walking and collecting
walking and documenting
walking and
hobby or art
take something indoors
take something outdoors
reaction
'intentional' art you might witness outdoors: public sculpture/installation/sound...
outdoor art
video made during walk
footage shot during walk
how to portray a place or journey
almost everyone has to walk
on a normal journey I spotted...
interest - choice - finding/choosing from/during journey
Whitechapel/atlas?
Impractical - direct painting? Stopped
Memory of walk, features, things of interest, how portrayed?
Version of events - subjective bias
Social = mass of personals
Room for views
Unique views
Developed style
Slight reference/subtlety
Can you help but be influenced by your walking environment?
Reality around you/Your perception of it/Variety in both
How does walking inspire/influence/inform the art? Artist's job is making art
Person makes thing, title indicated dedication to one type of output
Media mix
New media
New methods of creativity and communication
New depictions of timeless subjects
Stream of words/pictures/sounds
Inner-city overload
Walking in silence
Walking amongst x
Experience described in certain way
Myth of walking
Business of walking
Myth/business of art/artist
Image of person
Category/semantics/argument of definition
How do artists use walking to inspire, influence and inform their work?
Who does what and why?
Artist does walk for different reasons
Who?
Example A
Where?
Location
Why?
Reason
Example of work?
Photo with title
Concise, factual information
Questionnaire
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