Nick Shepherd

TY - CHAP

T1 - An Anthropocene Journey

T2 - Walking as Embodied Research

AU - Shepherd, Nick

AU - Ernsten, Christian

PY - 2021

Y1 - 2021

N2 - This chapter explores the craft of walking as a form of embodied research practice situated at the intersection between artistic research practices and forms of empirical research. Drawing from the authors’ experience in running walking seminars in Cape Town, Amsterdam, and Berlin involving scholars, artists, curators, and activists, it examines the conceptual basis of walking as embodied research via three broad sets of ideas. The first of these is a desire to escape the “white cube” of the seminar room, and to challenge body/mind dichotomies, driven by arguments in feminist theory and decolonial thinking. The second is an interest in notions of landscape as palimpsest, and an interest in questions of history, memory, and representation via a “history of fragments”. The third is contemporary debates on the Anthropocene, and an interest in what it means to think and practice from within the climate crisis. A rich body of artistic work has explored and worked with various walking-based methodologies. For scholars, such methods are potentially more challenging but no less productive.

AB - This chapter explores the craft of walking as a form of embodied research practice situated at the intersection between artistic research practices and forms of empirical research. Drawing from the authors’ experience in running walking seminars in Cape Town, Amsterdam, and Berlin involving scholars, artists, curators, and activists, it examines the conceptual basis of walking as embodied research via three broad sets of ideas. The first of these is a desire to escape the “white cube” of the seminar room, and to challenge body/mind dichotomies, driven by arguments in feminist theory and decolonial thinking. The second is an interest in notions of landscape as palimpsest, and an interest in questions of history, memory, and representation via a “history of fragments”. The third is contemporary debates on the Anthropocene, and an interest in what it means to think and practice from within the climate crisis. A rich body of artistic work has explored and worked with various walking-based methodologies. For scholars, such methods are potentially more challenging but no less productive.

UR - https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Handbook-of-Art-Science-and-Technology-Studies/Rogers-Halpern-Hannah-Ridder-Vignone/p/book/9781138347304

M3 - Book chapter

SN - 9781138347304

SP - 563

EP - 576

BT - Routledge Handbook of Art, Science, and Technology Studies

A2 - Rogers, Hannah Star

A2 - Halpern, Megan

A2 - null, Dehlia Hannah

A2 - de Ridder-Vignone, Kathryn

PB - Routledge

CY - Abingdon

ER -