{"product_id":"walking-art-practice-reflections-on-socially-engaged-paths-8203","title":"Walking Art Practice: Reflections on Socially Engaged Paths\u0026#8203;","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eErnesto Pujol here combines elements from an art book, field journal and walkers' manifesto. It is a text for performative artists, art students, and all who walk as cultural activism. \u003cem\u003eWalking Art Practice\u003c\/em\u003e is a collection of intimate reflections by the author, which bring together his experiences as a former monk, performance artist, social choreographer and educator.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e They serve as a provocation, walkers' manifesto and teaching guide for walking as mindful cultural activism.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eThis book is an invitation to: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eRethink what it means to walk and explore different ways in which to walk as: a cultural practice a meditative practice a radical practice art healing social engagement.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eReconsider how to attend to the inner and outer landscape whilst walking.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eTreat walking as a performance resource.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eWalk as an everyday pilgrimage.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eWalk slowly, walk in and with awareness, walk with and without skill, walk to regain and to lose control...\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"​Artists are trying to move away from the influence of competitive corporate culture that has increasingly defined art as an abrasive urban career. Artists are trying to replace this with the humbler notion of art as a practice, as a mindful way of life, consisting of consciously creative gestures, visible and invisible, large and small. Art practice is a private and public, selfless and generous, creative life process resulting in a conscious cultural product.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePujol, Ernesto:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Ernesto Pujol is a site-specific, public, performance artist and social choreographer, as well as a writer and educator. In the 1970s, he pursued undergraduate work in the humanities, art, and philosophy. During the 1980s, he sought Western monastic training in a Cistercian-Trappist cloister, followed by social work among the homeless, graduate work in education, psychology, and communications. He also served in public health addressing HIV\/AIDS in the US and Latin America, as a consultant to nonprofit organizations such as the Brooklyn AIDS Task Force and GMHC in New York, the Academy for Educational Development in Washington, DC, and the Panos Institute in London. During the 1990s, Pujol began to practice socially engaged art through a series of installation projects in Cuba and Puerto Rico. In 2000, he began to collaborate with citizen curators on regional, long-term projects in the Midwest and the South. In 2011, The Contemporary (art museum) in Honolulu hosted a partial retrospective of his work and commissioned a citywide, durational performance, Speaking in Silence. ​Pujol continues to serve as a graduate studio and thesis advisor to several programs, lead field-training, master workshops, and develop group performances as public portraits of embattled people and places.","brand":"Triarchy Press Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50445649641746,"sku":"9781911193364","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_3cdf36b5-dd6a-463e-8120-854f4d8add35.jpg?v=1729703160","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/walking-art-practice-reflections-on-socially-engaged-paths-8203","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}