Abstract
The research approaches walking as an artistic performance and urban experience that provokes and reestablishes every day habits. Rethinking the urban space in terms of its anthropological and perceptual attributes and not only of its geometrical or morphological characteristics is the main focus of the paper. The hypothesis is that walking as a kinesthetic urban performance can affect the way of perceiving and experiencing the contemporary urban environment.
Highlights
Introduction and Methodological ApproachThe paper presents the importance of walking as a somatic everyday practice and the integration of the body into the urban environment while moving and exploring it; it evokes social participation and shared experience, provokes encounters and gaze crossings, explores the porosity of the city and transforms the existing spatial organizations and urban structures
Later art examples of walking-performances are presented as applied theoretical approaches that contribute to the discussion
The experiments of the contemporary art groups explore ways that walking can contribute to the urban culture and influence the daily life [2]
Summary
The paper presents the importance of walking as a somatic everyday practice and the integration of the body into the urban environment while moving and exploring it; it evokes social participation and shared experience, provokes encounters and gaze crossings, explores the porosity of the city and transforms the existing spatial organizations and urban structures. The experiments of the contemporary art groups explore ways that walking can contribute to the urban culture and influence the daily life [2]. In this way, walking, as a strategy, becomes something much more than a mere everyday practice, as it can virtually create cultural paths and narratives that can participate and trans-form urban experiences
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