On Walking
One of the tasks that K had given me was to photograph the ground or floors in every place I visited as I walked around the city.
The practice of walking is not new in art, but seemed to have come to prominence lately with ideas around how we embody, think and map place/space. Although I am aware of some of the prominent artists such as Francis Alys and Richard Long, I had little idea that it was it’s own genre.
Walk Art Blog
The Art of Walking
Slow Cinema
Reading this article in the the Guardian, I started thinking about how the ideology/movement of ‘slow cinema’ can be imagined in small screen, interactive and digital forms. The article mentions a few websites that deal with slowness in relationship to landscapes. These attempt to counter the constant nagging presences and imperatives of online digital interactions and interactivity. This slowness has an intrinsic connectedness with the theme of ‘alone’.
A still from footage I shot of a mountain in Scotland, an extreme case of slow cinema.
Some Landscapes
Landscape Suicide
And by some strange coincidence- tomorrow, April 11, 2015 is Slow Art Day.
A research blog dedicated to not only slow cinema but slowness in other art forms.
For example: Zen for Film, dir by Nam June Paik (1964)
