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Contemporary Artists and Walking
Barbara Lounder, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design

3 contemporary artist
artistss works
Guards, by Francis Als, 2004-2005
Walk (Square), 2011, by Melanie Manchot
South
South North Walk
Walk , Barbara Lounder,
Lounder 2011

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A desire
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by erosion
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walker chooses to make a route, independent of
a pre-existing
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them.
Mobility is practice, and practice is often conflated
with mobility. To move is to do something. Moving
involves making a choice within, or despite, the
constraints of society and geography.
(Cresswell and Merriman, 2011)

Guards
Guards , by Francis Als,
Als 2004
2004-2005
2005
A 28-minute film made in collaboration with
R f lO
Rafael
Ortega
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and
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Other p
pieces in this series include Railings
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and Nightwatch
Guards
Guards was filmed in the City of London

From Guards, by Francis Als, 2004-2005. Still image of Guardsmen preparing, and reproduction of notes for
the score (directions) for the project.

From Guards
Guards , by Francis Als,
Als 2004-2005
2004 2005

From Guards
Guards , by Francis Als,
Als 2004-2005.
2004 2005 Selection of six still images from the 28
28-minute
minute film
film.

From Guards
Guards , by Francis Als,
Als 2004-2005
2004 2005

From Guards
Guards , by Francis Als,
Als 2004-2005
2004 2005

From Guards
Guards , by Francis Als,
Als 2004-2005
2004 2005 (still image from security video camera footage)

News photograph from Bishopsgate (City of London) IRA bombing

bombing, 1993

Image from 2004 video entitled Shoeshine, by Als with Rafael Ortega, shown along with
Guards in the group exhibition On Walking, Sunderland UK, 2013

Detail from news photograph of Guardsman Anthony James Wakefield, 1st Batallion of the
Coldstream Guards,
Guards who was killed in an ambush while on patrol in Al Amarah,
Amarah southern Iraq,
Iraq
May 2, 2005.

Walk
Walk (Square)
(Square), 2011
2011 , by Melanie Manchot
A 20-minute HD single screen film work,
presented as a large
p
g scale p
projection
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Features 1000 children, enlisted from 13
different schools in Hamburg,
Hamburg who all move
across the city to convene in the square in
f
front
off the
h Deichtorhollen
h h ll

Still from Bruce Naumans 1967-68 video (film) piece Walking in an Exaggerated Manner around
the Perimeter of a Square
Square . This work is cited by Melanie Manchot in relation to her piece Walk
Walk
(Square), 2011.

Detail from Kate Greenaways illustration for the cover and frontispiece of Robert Brownings
poem The
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
Hamelin, published in 1888
1888. The story of the Pied Piper is cited by
Melanie Manchot in reference to her work Walk (Square), 2011.

Still image from black and white segment of the video Walk (Square), 2011, by Melanie
Manchot. View is of the courtyard in front of the Deichtorhallen, Hamburg.

Still image from Walk (Square), 2011, by Melanie Manchot

Still image from Walk

Walk (Square)
(Square), showing the square gradually filling as children arrive
arrive.

Still image from Walk (Square), 2011, by Melanie Manchot

Still image from Walk (Square), 2011, by Melanie Manchot

Still image from Walk (Square). The square is now filled with children, and the image is in
colour.

Still image from Walk

Walk (Square)
(Square), showing the children walking in concentric square formation
formation.

South
South North Walk
Walk , Barbara Lounder,
Lounder 2011
One piece from a trilogy of small group walks,
Get Over It
Walk was from the south to the north side of
the city
city, across a historic military site
Images were projected while walking, and
photos were made of the walk

A typical south end neighbourhood in Halifax

Halifax, where South
South North Walk
Walk began

A typical north end neighbourhood in Halifax

Halifax, where South
South North Walk
Walk ended

From South
South North Walk
Walk , Barbara Lounder
Lounder, 2011

From South North Walk, Barbara Lounder, 2011

From South
South North Walk
Walk , Barbara Lounder
Lounder, 2011

From South
South North Walk
Walk , Barbara Lounder
Lounder, 2011

From South
South North Walk
Walk , Barbara Lounder
Lounder, 2011

From South
South North Walk
Walk , Barbara Lounder
Lounder, 2011

Desire Paths
Contemporary Artists and Walking

In
In sum,
sum the cultural,
cultural social and political
resonances that walking has been shown to
have are those encompassed by the moving
human body, and they must now exceed its
physical form.
- Hayden Lorimer

Artists information
Artists

To see a slideshow
l d h off Guards
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by Francis Alys,
l go
tohttp://www.artangel.org.uk//projects/2005/seven_walks/slideshow_gua
rds/four_guards
Videos of other works by Francis Als can be viewed
athttp://www.francisalys.com
For information about Melanie Manchot
Manchotss projects,
projects go to
http://www.melaniemanchot.net
Melanie Manchots Walk ((Square)
q
) 2011 can be viewed at
http://vimeo.com66217901
For more information about me and my work,
visithttp://www.barbaralounder.ca
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