Walking Workshop: Observing Pain and Pleasure
with Murat Yıldız
Date: Sunday, 4 June 2023
Time: 12:00 - 19:00 (obviously, you can leave the walk at any point)
Location:
starting from Rotterdam Centraal Station
We will host Murat Yıldız, Istanbul-based artist, to give a workshops in Rotterdam, purely made of walking and observing.
The first time we heard about walking as part of Murat’s practice was sometime in 2018-2019, when he had just walked from Den Bosch to Maastricht, in one go, we kid you not!
In this workshop each participant may lead the walk for an hour or so.
There is no preconcerted route.
We start to walk from Rotterdam Centraal Station and end up somewhere.
On this journey we will observe physical pain and then the body's responses. We document this journey by taking notes, filming and recording.
-We can offer apples as an energy source
PS: Friets in the end!
We started walking from the central station at 12:00, and wandered for 4.5 hours, roughly every hour one person leading and the rest following.
We rested on top of a hill (here no jokes either) and we continued for another 1.5 hours.
We walked 16.40km in total.
If that sounds slow, yeah we had lunch in a snack bar with the theme of NYC. We took the tram home from Rotterdam Alexander.