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The art of walking part 1
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Can walking be considered as an artform? Yes! There is a growing international community of artists for whom walking is central to their artistic practice. This offers a very different, even subversive, perspective on what art might be. But how can walking be turned into art? Here we explore this question by attempting to perform walking scores and proposals produced by different walking artists, with rather variable results...
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