Ways to Wander the Gallery
Claire Hind and Clare Qualmann 

25 intriguing ideas for different ways to walk in and beyond an art gallery - for gallery-goers, walkers, performance artists, students and academics.

In the summer of 2017 the editors led a series of weekly workshops at London’s Tate Modern looking at the relationship between walking, art, experimental writing and composition (using their 2015 book Ways to Wander as a starting point). They invited each participant to create a page for this new book.

Ways to Wander the Gallery includes their reflections on the workshops, on our relationship to the ‘consumption’ of art in the gallery space and the ‘Wander Scores’ - the artists’ pages which are each an invitation to readers to wander in the gallery and beyond. 
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The book asks you to reconsider your walked relationship with art through the concept of the Wander Score: ow playful and embodied can our wandering be in spaces that often make our feet ache?

This is an invitation to try 25 different ways to wander in and well beyond the art gallery -- inspired by artists Rebecca Horn, Bruce Nauman, Hito Steyerl, Janet Cardiff, Julie Mehretu and others.

Pop the book in your pocket, share it with friends, use it in teaching or in your own workshops, go on a hike with it, and return to the gallery. Read each Wander Score as poetry or make each one a performance.

Readership

Ways to Wander is intended for anyone who makes, or wants to make, walking art or walk-performances - and for anyone interested in psychogeography, radical walking, drift and dérive.
Publication: 5th November 2018 
List Price: £10
Format: ~ Paperback - 106 pages
Size: 12.7 x 20.3 cm
ISBN: 978-1-911193-51-7
Tags: walking, walking arts, Tate Modern, drift, dérive, walking artists network, psychogeography,  improvisation

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Available from late October

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Available from December
Just a few of the walking tactics and invitations begin as follows:
  • How could we reimagine the way we spend time in art galleries? What could be an alternative approach to this ingrained walk, stop, and glance?...
  • Asking ‘How much of our time spent with art considers the walk as an encounter with the work itself?’ might enable us to interrupt our habits and experience the gallery differently…
  • Walk the artwork as if it were a score for movement; take a line and ‘follow’ it, choose to mark and interpret it physically, and match a colour to a gesture…
  • Notice a line in the world; perhaps a road marking, cloud, window ledge, shoelace, tendril, spent dental floss, etched line in a great work of art. Embody that line: walk as if you are the line. Pass on your gestural walk to a friend…
  • Seek out apertures, thresholds and frames. You might find a gateway to the isles, even if the isles are a blur. What structures do you look out from? What is beyond them. Go and see…

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