Walking and the art of invitation 5 notes and 3 invitations

Abstract

A walk might be designed to be walked together in person, together at a distance, or on your own. Whether the artist is present or not, you are walking in a way they have designed. Even when walking alone, by interpreting the instructions of the artist you are walking with them. As Samuel R. Delany asserts, ‘language (and all that is language like) is the social, you can only be alone without it’ (Delany et al., 1987: 162). The invitation frames the walk; it initiates a way of walking with.