WALK intends to engage the audience with the healing act of silent walking meditation, particularly in relation to our suffering due to discrimination and racial oppression.
It aims for anti-colonial critique and a decolonial healing imagination, but does not engage participants and the audience through works of theory.
In fact, it does not even try to engage with the “intellect” in the first place.
It tries to engage directly, without the involvement of anything other than one's embodied presence, it only engages directly with the present moment.
It uses locations in the Netherlands with connections to the Dutch colonial empire and uses them as sites of collective walking meditation.
For each WALK, a publication is made which elaborates, on the one hand, on the significance of the location and, on the other, presents a “walking guide” which elaborates on walking meditation, its relation with breathing, our conscious steps, and its intergenerational healing power.
︎︎︎ WALK 1, Palestine
︎︎︎ WALK 2, Zeeland
︎︎︎ WALK 3, Maastricht
︎︎︎ WALK 4, Rotterdam
WALK intends to engage the audience with the healing act of silent walking meditation, particularly in relation to our suffering due to discrimination and racial oppression.
It aims for anti-colonial critique and a decolonial healing imagination, but does not engage participants and the audience through works of theory.
In fact, it does not even try to engage with the “intellect” in the first place.
It uses locations in the Netherlands with connections to the Dutch colonial empire and uses them as sites of collective walking meditation.
For each WALK, a publication is made which elaborates, on the one hand, on the significance of the location and, on the other, presents a “walking guide” which elaborates on walking meditation, its relation with breathing, our conscious steps, and its intergenerational healing power.