walking as an artistic tool or method ....

Walking must be some kind of meditation for some artists, I guess.
Richard Long, maybe?
There seems to be a long tradition of walking in the countryside or the wildness in UK. Although now they walk dogs more often.

I heard from John Jordan that James used to lead a few groups of people walking in the city until the two artists decided to make the walk into a beautiful piece of work which is the fabulous opera piece along with a walk in the city: "And While London Burns".

I took the walk three times. First time quickly lost my way after getting into the Underground Bank Station and go round and round and round ....
I had to emerge from there to the ground and frustratedly walked along the Thames to listen to the audio. The river, the sound and the story made a strange combination, sometimes attached and sometimes detached, making the whole experience even more surreal. I knew I need a guide.

The second time I asked Claudia's help. She came as a guide. We shared the MP3 that I have, and listened to the story by using only one side of the earphone. So we had to walk like Siamese twins. :D However, wandering through the big high-rising buildings and seeing enormous amount of people and computer screens in the offices is thrilling. We still lost directions a few times but overall it is quite good and we ended up in front of the monument. Time was too late to get in and climb up.

Two days later, before the interview with John Jordan, I made the final trip to the Monument and listened to the audio while climbing up the stairs. That was the ending point of the whole work. Standing at the height of the tower and looking around all in front of you, brings another latitude of understanding and feeling. I can not but think, this is a very clever work. It even makes the audience perform on the stage of the city without self-consciousness. The audience is the actor, and the streets of the city are the stage; those high-rising buildings are the backdrop, and the pedestrians and automobiles become the living props. What a grand scale of the performance!

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some afterthoughts:

The physical presence is very important in this work,
as well as the integration of knowledge, senses, and movement or action.

For someone like me who gets lost a lot, it is a journey of building up a complex neurological web with intertwined linkages of right and wrong, virtual and real, at the same time.