The Walking Project
Welcome
* upcoming exhibition: The Walking Project will be part of Non Fiction at Our Space Gallery (12 Old Street, London, EC1V 9BE), 24. Sept – 26. Nov 2010, vernissage 23. Sept 6-9pm. *
I’m an artist working primarily in photography, however my practice extends into the fields of moving image and installation. I have just completed work on the main body of:
THE WALKING PROJECT
The idea that one photograph can document the duration of a walk is clearly ridiculous:
an object cannot compete with an experience.
Hamish Fulton (quoted in: Tufnell & Wilson 2002: 27)
The Walking Project explores the possibility of communicating in the form of an artwork a subjective experience of the world understood in spatiotemporal terms and in relation to the body as the necessary subject of perception. It consists of long-exposure photographs, films, heart-rate records, sound records, maps, etc., which in this multitude of approaches attempt the impossible: materialization of a transient experience of basic activity engaging the body in a linear progress through space and time, and production of an object indexical to the distance and duration of the experience. Starting with the realization that the above has already been attempted (notably by the walking artist Hamish Fulton) and failed (as the above quote suggests), I embarked on technical experiments with cameras and photographic materials to test the limitations of the medium in recording a walk in its continuity. Balancing between materiality and immateriality, obscurity and information, the work places equal importance on the experience of the artist – principally a solitary affair without a witness – and that of the viewer – an imaginary journey upon encountering the traces of the walk.