Call for Walking

Call for Walking

To mark the twenty-year anniversary of defecting Poland in Florence, Italy
(1988), and the Fall of the Berlin Wall, I will make a special walking
performance artwork, “Performing Exile,” and I invite everybody to join
me. Most walks would take place during the day, however, I would like to
perform a few night walks as well. We could walk with our eyes closed,
backwards, crawling, walking very slowly, standing still, walking with
special objects, artworks etc.

Project Description

Starting on July 15, 2008, I will walk the entire length of the former
Berlin Wall (160 km) with one or more people. I will walk every day for
about 3 weeks and you are welcome to join me for a short or longer walk. I
am looking for diverse forms of interactions with you: artistic,
linguistic, philosophical, and political. Every day would be planned so
you would know where to meet me. I would like to record the walks to
include the video, photo and audio material in the future publication.

The possible topics that I would like to explore with you could be:

 Diverse aspects of social, cultural, and political tensions (i.e.
exile and citizenship)
 Any personal experiences or stories about exile, immigration and
displacement, the Berlin Wall, and other walls
 Dichotomy of walking and standing still (impossibility of walking)
 The poetics and politics of performance art (any subject, it
could be based on your art practice)

Besides Polish, I speak English, Italian, and French (currently learning
German), so I would be interested in conversing with you in those
languages.

Please contact me at kinga.araya [at] ici-berlin [dot] org to sign up for a walk or
to receive further information.

Deadline is July, 10th 2008

For more details about my work please visit: www.kingaaraya.com

Looking forward to walking with you!

Kinga Araya