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(2016) Walking and the aesthetics of modernity, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
Walking with the world
toward an ecological approach to performative art practice
Andrew Goodman
pp. 141-154
This chapter considers the potential in an artwork for walking to "world" the body. That is, how movement engages the body in processes by which a relational ecology begins to evolve. I begin with a concept of walking as a "minor practice" that seeks a creative flight from the structured places of the city and from a body's own capacity to succumb to habit and a loss of breadth of expression. Erin Manning's writing on the moving body and Arakawa and Gins' theories on body-space entanglement are briefly explored, and these concepts are then applied to Nathaniel Stern's Compressionism, a performative work that actively applies the differential potential of movement to explore the ecological engagement of such activities.
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DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-60364-7_10
Full citation:
Goodman, A. (2016)., Walking with the world: toward an ecological approach to performative art practice, in K. Benesch & F. Specq (eds.), Walking and the aesthetics of modernity, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 141-154.
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