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From an interview with Ernesto Pujol:
RK: There’s a line in your book that recalls the current state of everything: “More and more individuals need to give up control in order to reclaim their balance.” How you think this is actively affecting individuals now? 
EP:  We have lived with a false sense of control. Entitlement to abundance and waste through constant consumption has given us an extravagant sense of our power in the United States. That perverse power is at the core of our disconnectedness from nature. We’re barely in control of our souls yet we think ourselves the architects of the Earth. We unleashed the current pandemic because our greed encroached the few wildlife spaces that remain, dismantling a natural architecture that held viruses otherwise contained. The only way to reintegrate back to nature, and thus restore its natural orderly architecture, is to give up the fantasy of this inordinate control.
RK:  What benefits do you see in our current collective loss of control? Is it really a loss of control or a loss of perceived freedom?  
EP:  I do not believe that we face a loss of control, because that so-called control was never real. I believe that this situation is a tragic reality check on what I call the architecture of civilization. Our so-called freedom to do whatever we want, whenever and wherever we want, regardless of the consequences, is a perversion of freedom, an immature and indulgent notion of spatial freedom.  Read the full interview
Imprint: Triarchy Press
Published: 2018
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Walking Art Practice
Reflections on Socially Engaged Paths
Ernesto Pujol

​Combining elements from an art book, field journal and walkers' manifesto, this is a text for performative artists, art students, and all who walk as cultural activism.


Walking Art Practice is a collection of intimate reflections by artist Ernesto Pujol, which bring together his experiences as a former monk,
performance artist, social choreographer and educator.

They serve as a provocation, walkers’ manifesto and teaching guide for
walking as mindful cultural activism.

This book is an invitation to:
  • Rethink what it means to walk and explore different ways in which to walk as:  a cultural practice ~ a meditative practice ~ a radical practice ~ art ~ healing ~ social engagement.
  • Reconsider how to attend to the inner and outer landscape whilst walking.
  • Treat walking as a performance resource.
  • Walk as an everyday pilgrimage.
  • Walk slowly, walk in and with awareness, walk with and without skill, walk to regain and to lose control...
"A culture is how a specific people, in a specific place, in a specific moment, choose to portray themselves to each other and to the world. Artists are choosing to walk in order to regain control of our being from government officials, political parties, religions, corporations, and media. Artists are walking for you and me; artists are walking for us."

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 This is an inspirational text for artists, art students and anyone who loves to step outside.
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"​Artists are trying to move away from the influence of competitive corporate culture that has increasingly defined art as an abrasive urban career. Artists are trying to replace this with the humbler notion of art as a practice, as a mindful way of life, consisting of consciously creative gestures, visible and invisible, large and small. Art practice is a private and public, selfless and generous, creative life process resulting in a conscious cultural product."