World-Wide-Walks

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.

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.

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