Walk For… Link of the project: https://balamronan.net/caminar-para/ Objective The aim of this project in general terms is to investigate artistic practices that speak about the importance of walking. Also some artistic exercises (video and audio recordings, actions, photographs, etc.) will be done that help to understand this question and to project works to be realized in the future. Walk Walking can be an intimate moment, which help us to know ourselves, to think, to correct ourselves, to question us. But it is also a social and political act, a relational act, an openness to the world, and that is where I am most interested in focusing on this project. We know the problems that are going through many places. Societies. politics, and culture have been subordinated to neoliberal economics and finance. People, social groups, cultural differences, differences of thought, the economic inequality and the inequality of rights, matter less and less. Among many other problems. And that is where I think art should be. I think that art has the ability to make us understand that to transform our lives we need to work every day, we need to transform our daily life, and that is where walking comes. Walking places us in the present, in the here and now. Walking gives us the opportunity to experience, think an live the world. Walking through a places can transform the place itself, and our perception of it. It help us to know each other, to make us understand that we need other people, to understand our interdependence, our co-involvement, to make us discover the relationships we have with people, the social expressiveness we live. Walking can be an act capable of strengthening our relationships, to share with other people, it is a vehicle of communication, understanding and approach to the people, a means of understanding and transformation of our realities. In the current economic, political and social context, walking can be perceived as an act of resistance against fear, violence and repression, and act of rebellion against the capitalist system, because it invites us to take distance, to stop producing, to stop to consume, to leave the urgency and stress, slows down the hurried pace of our lives, invites us to stop, to meet, to talk and to know us, to think about us, our relationships and our societies. Walking help us to re-learn to live the world. Learning transform us, gives us the ability to think, listen, say and do in another way. Works: Work no. 1 Time-lapse that I made taking a picture every 30 steps. I starded from De las Artes street, in the Hidalgo neighborhood, then I followed Zaragoza Avenue, Jesús García walkway, Reforma Avenue, Josefa Vergara street and walkway, Libertad walkway, Constitution Square, Pino Suárez street, Allende street, Matamoros walkway, and Guerrero street until reach the corner with Hidalgo Street, in the Downtown of the city of Queretaro, Mexico. Link of the time-lapse: https://vimeo.com/217438766
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