#aimless walk

[the-candie]

Bored Man Wandering Streets

A scene depicting a bored man wandering the streets, with a focus on capturing the mood and atmosphere of his aimless walk. Referenced from provided images.

[sarka-160cm-me]

AIMLESS WALKS for KUKAČKA 2021, series of performative walks & talks for a public art festival in Ostrava

realized: Kukačka 9: This is Not Art, Ostrava, CZ, 8/10, 27/10, 6/11/2021

Just following my nose, talking casually or being silent. Following the flow of thoughts, their rhythm, the pace of walking. Listening, sharing, recording, sharing. Rhythm. What inspires me is the theme of rhythm presented by Henri Lefebvre, a French philosopher, sociologist and geographer. In his view, rhythm is something we can’t separate from time and its repetition and cyclicality. It is rooted in urban life and movement through space.

Walking as a starting point or a signpost for further thinking. Going and non-violently following the flow of ideas in relation to the environment, paying attention to the building of contexts and diversions. Or letting everything just flow?! Walks without a goal, but with content. The starting point is determined, but the end and the content are based on the context, mood and current feelings.

a/ Arriving by train at Ostrava’s main station. Feeling like a cup of coffee. Looking around to see if anyone is waiting for me. It is the first day of the parliamentary elections. 🎧 LISTEN 🎧

b/ Tomorrow is a national holiday. Maybe everyone is gone, but I hope someone from the city council will go for a walk with me. 🎧 LISTEN 🎧

c/ Night walks are another story. They open other layers of perception. Maybe we won’t talk at all. 🎧 LISTEN 🎧

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Inspired by the nesting parasitism of the common cuckoo, Kukačka / the Cuckoo is an Ostrava-based platform for presenting contemporary art away from galleries. Its aim is primarily to define and, in individual artistic interventions, apply socially and culturally innovative practices and strategies. The Cuckoo is intensely concerned with the question of the social role of art, its ambitions, as well as its ability to establish a mutual dialogue outside the “seclusion” of the white gallery cube. In a broader context, it also thematises the contemporary contradiction between the need of artists to comment on the current state of affairs and the willingness of the audience to listen to them.

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Ve světě bez umění [Artalk.cz review]

photo: Tomáš Knoflíček

[picpak]

This film, like an action painting by Franz Kline, is a rising crescendo of abstract images. Rapid cuts of white forms on a black background supplemented by an equally abstract soundtrack give the impression of a bombardment in celestial space or on a battlefield where cannons fire on an unseen enemy in the night.

[ramblingsofamortal]

Aimless Walks

More often I find myself leaving my house for an aimless walk.

A walk to the streets nearby.

A little adventure of my own.

Not knowing where I am going or why, I just walk along the roads, choosing the roads on a whim as I pass along.

These aimless walks help me think; think about all the choices in life in retrospect.

Many would say that not much comes out of thinking about the past but I disagree.

Choices of the past have a way of reflecting who you were at that point in time. It helps you understand yourself better.

It’s only when you realize the mistakes and the choices you’ve made in the past that you realize who you were and thus can decide who you want to be.

Is it truly in our control to decide who do we want to be?

Partially, I would say.

In life more often than not you encounter circumstances where you have to eventually adapt to it, where there no way of altering them while other times you might just think that you have no choice while in reality you do, you’ve just failed to find a way. I guess that’s what “growing up” means, to know the difference.

So while you don’t always have a firm grasp on the circumstances you do select your own choices every step of the way. So yes you do have a control of what you want to be.

Life seems to be a like these aimless walks, where I choose one of the paths whenever I find a fork in the road and it will be the sum of these choices that will carve out the life I have. I guess what they say is right it’s not the destination that matters but the journey.  

Each person carves its own way through it and I guess that’s what makes us special.

[filmgoon]

Bezucelna Prochazka (Aimless Walk) | Alexander Hammid | 1930 | 9

[rikis]

Bezucelná procházka (Aimless Walk) Alexander Hammid 1930