Walk and conversation with Luis Martínez Campo
12:00
Invitations are required (Monday before the activity, at 10:00, We will enable here the option to get it easily and free of charge. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us. contact with the Foundation. Thank you for your understanding).
“Walking can be a waste of time. So can writing”. This walk and this presentation are a vindication of the unproductive. Of what wastes time and of that wasted time itself. Because at a time of millimetric timetables and hyper-productive logics, walking in silence can be a revolutionary act or it can be nothing more than walking. And that is what makes it a transformative act, the possibility of not being.
This day is made up of two complementary activities (the invitation is for both):
1. “Get lost” Collective drifting
12:00
With Luis Martínez Campo
“Losing oneself means that between us and the space there is not only a relation of domination, of control by the subject, but also the possibility that the space dominates us”. Franco La Cecla
We are not going anywhere on this walk. Each of us will go where we want to go, without thinking too much about it. We can do it together or separately, running or walking slowly. We will discover places that everyone knows but that at that moment will be singular, unique. We will listen to what sounds and what is absent. We will live for 30 minutes walking. And at the end we will stop: we will sit in the place we prefer, the one we have just found or the one we have been thinking about all morning. And we will write. Or not.
2. Presentation of the book Time-wasting diary by Luis Martínez Campo
13:00
The following spoke: Luis Martínez Campo (author) and Eloísa Otero (coordinator of the collection “A cuentagotas”).
“After the spring of 2020 I felt a compelling need to walk. Like a flâneur, I drifted through the city. And when it was possible to get out of the city, I wandered elsewhere. [...] I decided to make a diary of journeys walked through the city. A notebook of listening to public places. A waste of time.
Walking can be a waste of time. So can writing. All the entries in this diary have been written in different outdoor public spaces: parks, squares, streets, paths, hills. Places where it is easy to waste time. Some are singular and others irrelevant, but all become emblematic after referencing a diary entry. Or several. All of them could begin with the word «sitting», as they have all been written after a walk. There have been fifteen-minute ones and there have been six-hour ones. They all begin with automatic writing that takes the pulse of walking and then drift in unexpected ways to other moments. Past and future. All pay special attention to what is going on around them and what can be heard. In some, words are hybridised with graphic notations of sounds. This diary functions as a book of scores of places: what is recounted was happening in real time as it was written.
When you walk and write you lose time in many ways. You lose track of time and time itself. You start here and now and you end up here but not now.”
This activity is part of the programme of activities in connection with the exhibition Voices that walk
