Full Description
This book presents Peter d'Agostino's World-Wide-Walks project, providing a unique perspective on walking practices across time and place considered through the framework of evolving technologies and changes in climate. Performed on six continents during the past five decades, d'Agostino's work lays a groundwork for considering walks as portals for crossing natural, cultural and virtual frontiers.
Broad in scope, it addresses topics ranging from historical concerns including traditional Australian Aboriginal rites of passage and the exploits of explorers such as John Ledyard, to artists' walks and related themes covered in the mass media in recent years. D'Agostino's work shows that the act of walking places the individual within a world of empirical awareness, statistical knowledge, expectation and surprise through phenomena like anticipating unknown encounters around the bend. In mediating the frontiers of human knowledge, walking and other forms of exploration remain a critical means of engaging global challenges, especially notable now as environmental boundaries are undergoing radical and potential cataclysmic change.
Contents
Preface
Part I: INTRODUCTION
Chapter 1: Walking on Edges, Peter d'Agostino's World-Wide-Walks
Kristine Stiles
Part II: COMMENTARIES
Chapter 2: Peter d'Agostino: Walks & Sounds (footsteps, noise and silence)
Gabriel Villota Toyos
Chapter 3: World-Wide-Walks: body-apparatus
David I. Tafler
Part III: PROJECTS
Chapter 4: World-Wide-Walks: selected work (1973-2018)
Peter d'Agostino
Chapter 5: FOOTnotes: Times & Places, Walking & Mapping
Peter d'Agostino
Chapter 6: WALKING... in a changing climate
Peter d'Agostino
Part IV: DOCUMENTS
Chapter 7: COLD / HOT: Walks, Wars & Climate Change
David I. Tafler, Kristine Stiles and Christiane Paul
Chapter 8: World-Wide-Walks / between earth & sky / Donegal
Peter d'Agostino, Deirdre Dowdakin and David I. Tafler
Chapter 9: COME & GO
Kristine Stiles
Part V: APPENDICES
Chapter 10: WALKING... maps-territories
Peter d'Agostino and David I. Tafler
Chapter 11: Natural-Cultural Consciousness: in the age of climate change
Peter d'Agostino and David I. Tafler
Chapter 12: Techno-Cultural Visions: photography-cinema-digital media
David I. Tafler
Chapter 13: Peter d'Agostino's Interfacing Strategies: camera obscura to World Wide Web
David I. Tafler
Chapter 14: Re-Visioning Virtual Realities (1990s/2010s)
Peter d'Agostino
Chapter 15: footNOTES: selected 1970s notebooks
Peter d'Agostino
Acknowledgments
Biographies
Index
