Psicogeografia femminista
Camminare come pratica artistica, performativa e filosofica
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https://doi.org/10.15160/2282-5460/3032Keywords:
Walking, Gender, Body, Art, PerformanceAbstract
The practical and critical interest in walking is rooted in a history of ideas performed and narrated by white men (Heddon & Turner 2012), whose theories and interpretations continue to influence cultural understandings of walking, shaping and conditioning its contemporary aesthetic and philosophical knowledge. This article seeks to deconstruct the figures of the explorer and the flâneur and their assimilation as universal walking subjects; it also aims to neutralize the themes of absolute freedom as an escape from relationality and of the disembodied gaze as an instrument for engaging with space. By placing the body at the center of feminist psychogeography, the discussion underscores the performative and contemplative dimensions of the act of walking and shows how the feminist art of walking constitutes a political practice intended to generate new meanings of reality, as well as a form of public artistic practice capable of fostering knowledge of life and, at the same time, tangibly shaping its ideals.References
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