Berkeley Art and Interreligious Pilgrimage Project

The Art of Walking (Chair: Judith Rodenbeck, UC Riverside)

College Art Association Conference NY

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.

The Sixth Annual Borsch-Rast Lecture

GTU Dinner Board Room, Flora Lamson Hewlett Library 2400 Ridge Rd, Berkeley, CA, United States

The Graduate Theological Union is pleased to host Dr. Kathryn Barush, Thomas E. Bertelsen Jr. Associate Professor of Art History and Religion, for the sixth annual Borsch-Rast Lecture for her […]

Free

Berkeley CROP Hunger Walk

Walking Starting Point 1735 Le Roy Ave, Berkeley, CA, United States

Help us to end hunger, one step at a time!  The Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University is teaming up with the School of the Madeleine for the 2023 Berkeley CROP Hunger […]

August news!

To mark the anniversary of the publication of Phil Volker’s beautiful book, Walking in the Mud: The Diary of a D.I.Y. Camino, here’s a podcast live from Raven Ranch with […]

Pilgrimage Through the Senses

Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University 1735 Le Roy Ave, Berkeley, CA, United States

Savor a sensory experience through wine and tapas that will transport you to the Camino Ignaciano - the Way of St. Ignatius of Loyola - in Spain. Enjoy a guided […]

$100.00