{"id":1270,"date":"2009-11-16T16:00:03","date_gmt":"2009-11-16T20:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingatlantic.ca\/?p=1270"},"modified":"2013-01-21T04:50:36","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T08:50:36","slug":"a-wander-in-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/atlantic\/2009\/11\/16\/a-wander-in-time\/","title":{"rendered":"A Wander in Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2491\/4080233655_dfaaee1de8_b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"449\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>HALIFAX &#8211; <\/strong>Interdisciplinary artist Eryn Foster organizes public walks in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pointpleasantpark.ca\/en\/home\/default.aspx\">Point Pleasant Park<\/a> titled <em>Wanders in the Yonder<\/em>. You may have seen her beautiful posters shimmering behind storefront glass or tucked on arts bulletins. Fosters&#8217; <em>Wanders in the Yonder<\/em> is the product of the new Artist-in-residency program in Point Pleasant Park sponsored by the Halifax Regional Municipality. Since October, Foster has been utilizing her residency project to do further research on the art of walking.<\/p>\n<p>Walking is not new to Foster; she has been walking around the Maritimes since 2007, when she first initiated her art project <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newcanadianpilgrimages.blogspot.com\/\">New Canadian Pilgrimages<\/a>.<\/span> Like her New Canadian Pilgrimages project, Fosters&#8217; wanderings through the park are unmapped and flow with the consciousness and collective movements of whoever participates in the performance. The overall idea to Fosters\u2019 walks is to wander; to not set out on an etched out path and to not talk about the current performance of wandering.\u00a0 When participants are done walking, they wander off without telling anyone. But the group does talk! In fact, Foster records the sounds from the walk, park and human chatter, for an undetermined archive project. Foster has been applying her performance research at conferences like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.walk21.com\/conferences\/barcelona.asp\">Walk21<\/a> in Barcelona, Spain or at other artist residencies, such as the one at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centreforarttapes.ca\/newsletter.aspx\">Centre for Art Tapes<\/a> in Halifax, NS (learn more about what Foster worked on at her <strong>Artist Talk on December 5<sup>th<\/sup> at 1pm at Point Pleasant Lodge<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, November  1<sup>st<\/sup>, 2009, I joined Foster for a three hour walk titled <em>The Day of the Dead: The Existential Excursion<\/em>, with seven other participants. The title of this walk was an ironic spin on exploring the meaning of life on the day that we remember the dead. Over the course of the wander that led us on trails and off trails, participant wanderers shared stories, some obscure ideas regarding the meaning of life, others about where they actually are in life, (expecting a baby, buying a house, art school) and their knowledge about different insights during the walk, such as learning about the local flora and fauna.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, November  8<sup>th<\/sup>, 2009, Foster invited artist <a title=\"Barbara Lounder\" href=\"http:\/\/walkingandartresidency.pbworks.com\/Barbara+Lounder\">Barbara Lounder<\/a> to guide the walk with different art performances, one including, the use of her walking sticks and the other walking blind-folded. This Sunday, November 15<sup>th<\/sup>, Foster has organized a walk with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewalkingmonk.org\/\">The Walking Monk<\/a>. Otherwise known as Bhaktimarga Swami, the Walking Monk has walked across Canada four times and will bring his insights and performances to Fosters&#8217; <em>Wanders<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The last wander, <strong>scheduled on November 29, 2009<\/strong> is a backwards walk titled, &#8220;Going Backwards, Moving Forwards<em>.&#8221;<\/em> <em>Wanders in the Yonders<\/em> scheduled Sunday walks begin at 1pm at the <a title=\"Point Pleasant Lodge\" href=\"www.pointpleasantpark.ca\/en\/home\/education\/dykt\/ppplodge.aspx\">Point Pleasant Lodge<\/a> (where Young   Ave meets the park).<\/p>\n<p><em>For more information about Eryn Foster\u2019s walking performances or the performance of walking in general, read Sue Johnson\u2019s Article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dominionpaper.ca\/articles\/1787\">The Art of Walking<\/a> in the Dominion Paper.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>photo by Crystal Melville<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HALIFAX &#8211; Interdisciplinary artist Eryn Foster organizes public walks in Point Pleasant Park titled Wanders in the Yonder. 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