Book launch party with special, limited edition copies stamped with Phil Volker's wood brand, readings, live music, and cake!  All are welcome.  Contact kbarush@scu.edu for info.

Dr. Barush will discuss her work with The Berkeley Art and Interreligious Pilgrimage Project, which is an invitation to create and experience art-infused pilgrimages in the Bay Area and beyond. It seeks to link sacred landscapes the world over to neighborhoods, gardens, and backyards as a way to connect with each other and our ancestors […]

Dr. Barush will discuss her work with The Berkeley Art and Interreligious Pilgrimage Project, which is an invitation to create and experience art-infused pilgrimages in the Bay Area and beyond. It seeks to link sacred landscapes the world over to neighborhoods, gardens, and backyards as a way to connect with each other and our ancestors […]

Berkeley Art & Pilgrimage Project-related events and talks at the American Academy of Religion conference in Denver, CO: Saturday, Nov. 19th, 4:30 pm:  come pick up a postcard for our latest pilgrimage and chat with Dr. Kathryn Barush & advisory board member Dr. Cogen Bohanec about the project (GTU booth) Saturday, Nov. 19th, 6:00 pm: […]

From the wanderers of Caspar David Friedrich or the flaneurs of Charles Baudelaire to Paul Klee taking a line for a walk or Ghandi leading the Salt March to the Wall Street crawls of William Pope L or the sonic scapes of Janet Cardiff, the activity of walking has been thematized as resistance--whether to the speed of capital and the logics of the imperium or simply to the rushed pace and sheer business of contemporary life. A dérive interrupting thoughtless transit from a to b, the embodied practice of walking is, deliberately undertaken, a mode of thinking as well as doing. This panel aims to investigate the walk in contemporary artistic practice. Themes may include: the mechanics of ambulation; walking as thought, as escape, as flight, as penance, as punishment, as pilgrimage; self-powered movement as forensic, slow, embodied, as individuated and collective--walking as, to borrow from the critic Mario Pedrosa, an "experimental practice of freedom." Presentations are welcome to range across an array of topics and modalities, from address to physiological basics-–the foot, the human form, bipedalism, gravity—to physical and spatial exercises and thought experiments to specific cultural and geopolitical examples, with particular attention to the contemporary explosion in art-walking as a sophisticated collective and ecological, even ethological, response to hypermodernity.