tempo walk

conducted a walk where the group of participants walked to the audio i created "hypnotized walking tempo"

creating the walkers to walk to this tempo, no destination, allowing them to be lost in the motion and pace

Blind Walk

Revisiting

When i was in elementary school my best friend and I would walk every morning to school and back home together, we would call each other in the morning and say when to begin walking and we would meet at the corner were our streets met, Kirby Crescent and Alex Doner Dr.
it was an everyday ritual for a good 6 years of our lives
We recently revisited this walking route one night coming home from a gathering of friends, it felt so good to walk this again with her, it was dark but we felt safe because of the familiarity
It is a special route

Ministry of Silly Walks, Monty Python sketch 

take a look at the video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqhlQfXUk7w

"A Mystery: Why Can't We Walk Straight?"

"walking (2 times)"

today i came across this video on youtube
it is an animated wall painting
figures walking, distorted and creating
more figures walking on the walls around the room
i wish i could embed the video but unfortunately i cant
here is a link to the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7nVyVgz8GY

Do This

In Guelph ON.
Begin at Hanlon Creek Park
Cross Kortright Rd. W
Walk West on Kortright following the direction of traffic
Continue walking
Cross Edinburgh Rd.
Continue walking

Walking the Land

"Landscape and walking provide the catalyst for Walking the Land’s creative activities."

stumbled on this site called Walking the Land
http://www.walkingtheland.org.uk/
please take a look explore the site!
In the gallery read about "Lost Trees" and the artwork called "Arboreality"

hypnotized walking tempo

this is an audio piece, i had to display it in video form since i was having trouble posting it as an audio clip...
this is a single foot step recorded and looped to achieve the very specific tempo and length i wanted to seem like a hypnotic motion
in regards to displaying this piece, it would be accessible for the walker to transfer onto whatever type of electronic listening device they own and would be experienced while they go for a walk of their choice

Mazes!

quotes from Wanderlust: a history of walking by Rebecca Solnit

"A path is a prior interpretation of the best way to traverse a landscape, and to follow a route is to accept an interpretation..."

"...I understood the morals of mazes: sometimes you have to turn your back on your goal to get there, sometimes you're farthest away when you're closest, sometimes the only way is the long one."

Essentially mazes are a network of winding paths. There are usually dead ends in the designed paths, mazes are meant to be a puzzle to be solved. There is a goal which is the center of the maze. Mazes soul purpose is to confusing the walker or visitor within. They do have a moral significance as well which has been expressed in the quote above. Well what is a labyrinth? There is a difference between a maze and a labyrinth. To qualify as a maze the design must have some choice or branches in the path. A labyrinth design only has one path. Maze designs were simple at first and developed rapidly. In fact maze designs were originally developed from the simplistic labyrinth design, the walls were rearranged to create paths with choice and branches. There are five basic types of mazes however not all mazes fall into these categories perfectly.

Simply-connected Maze:
This particular maze design is formed from one unbroken wall with many branches. If the wall surrounding the goal of the maze is linked to the perimeter at the entrance, the maze can be solved by keeping a hand on the wall.

Multiply- connected Maze 
Here the goal or center of the maze is isolated from the perimeter wall, set in an island of barriers therefore defeating solving the maze with hand to wall contact, this increases the difficulty.

Three-dimensional maze
Traditional mazes with hedge walls appear three dimensional but really the pathways are two dimensional. Here we have a idea that has been present since the nineteenth century but has only existed on paper until the early 1980's. Bridges and underpasses adds to the complexity of the maze and allows the goal to be completely isolated with only a bridge link.

Conditional movement maze 
This maze design assists the walker with dictated moves or instructions. This allows the paths to be very intricate but occupy limited space. Present an entertaining intellectual challenge and are popular in educational context specifically mathematical and scientific aspects.

Interactive maze
This particular maze design is high-tech. This concept is the most interesting to me personally. The layout responds to the actions of the visitors. Computer timed barriers and other devices such as motion sensors are used to calculate the physical custom of the walker.

here is an interesting website link i came across that relates to mazes and labyrinths, it has a bit of a different subject with mazes than walking but i thought it is worth sharing:
www.dgp.toronto.edu/~karan/maze/

also if your interested in taking a trip there is a hedge maze on Toronto island
wikimapia.org/#lat=43.6180191&lon=-79.3725622&z=18&l=0&m=b

Stunt Poetry by Rishi Kaneria

Stunt Poetry from Rishi Kaneria on Vimeo.

mirror walking

Pacific Mall, Toronto, ON.

Walking with a mirror pointed in a manner so that the ceiling is viewable, the action of flipping the mall upside down and visually walking on the ceiling.

collection

a readymade collection of chinese lanterns found at pacific mall, ON.

bench stunt

preformed at pacific mall, ON.
creating a sculpture in the mall from benches found in the mall not for the aesthetic value but for the purpose of changing walkers paths and for the inconvenience it causes

mushrooming

just in case

Superstition impacting walking, this is a slight impact but an impact.. possibly impact is the wrong word maybe too intense for this but to be quite honest iv never been good with words, relatively small vocabulary, it gets the message across
people will recalculate their footing while walking because according to superstition you will break your back.. or your mothers back
uh ok so we created a way to explain mysterious events that happened but we did not have nearly as much scientific development as we do today... we have a lot more knowledge today than we did centuries ago
so why do we still have superstition.. because, just in case
... just in case I will avoid the cracks

Hamish Fulton

Hamish Fulton: walking artist
specifically take a look at some of his images
in particular:
"outline of the feet of Reinhold Messner 11 July 2002"

http://www.hamish-fulton.com/

Mazes

Walking and Mazes, exploring this topic should be interesting, do mazes have a specific strategy or pattern to follow? what is a maze and what is a labyrinth?

audio walk

Sept. 15th
Experiencing A Large Slow River (2000). An audio walk created by artists Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller. This audio walk takes you on a journey through the Oakville Garlioch Gardens (Oakville Gallery, ON. Canada). Truly a beautiful piece, if you have the opportunity to experience it please please do not hesitate in taking it. There were a few times where i caught myself looking around to see what i was hearing on the audio recording, the recording was calming and had an odd spiritual sense to it. I loved when the audio recording would mention the crashing of waves and you could hear them but when looking on the lake it happened to be a calm day, it really let you use your imagination and visualize the waves, this was the same for the colours of the flowers, they were different from in the recording which allowed you to visualize the change in the gardens. Beautiful piece.  

Untitled from elise on Vimeo.

walking with no direction while taking video clips of places, things that grabbed my attention, reminded me of things, compiled into a video, edited to appear to be the remembering of information stored in the subconscious mind of a walk


side thought regarding subconscious- learning to use your subconscious mind? Control