Pilgrimage as a Medium: Teaching Art on the Camino de Santiago

Walking as a social art practice is a pedagogical tool for teaching pilgrimage, allowing students to map their experiences onto a millennia-old tradition while forming a dialogue with the expansive surrounding landscape. Liminal in form and transformative in experience, aesthetic pedestrianism and t...

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Main Authors: Roxana Pérez-Méndez, Mario Marzan
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Published: Turismo de Galicia-S.A. de Xestión do Plan Xacobeo 2024-07-01
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Online Access:https://www.caminodesantiago.gal/en/knowledge-and-research/ad-limina/article?content=/70-Conecementos-e-investigacion/.content/ad-limina/.content/artigos-adlimina/AD15-04.xml?revista=/70-Conecementos-e-investigacion/.content/ad-limina/.content/revistas-adlimina/ADLIMINA-15-2024.xml
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description Walking as a social art practice is a pedagogical tool for teaching pilgrimage, allowing students to map their experiences onto a millennia-old tradition while forming a dialogue with the expansive surrounding landscape. Liminal in form and transformative in experience, aesthetic pedestrianism and the performance of pilgrimage share many commonalities, both functioning as performative actions and as ritual reenactments of our shared human condition. This paper will present as a case study the work of artists and professors Roxana Pérez-Méndez and Mario Marzán, who utilize pilgrimage through the context of an embodied walking art practice. By viewing the Camino de Santiago as a site for creative inquiry, students on their journey become intimately tied to the creation process—part social practice, part radical healing, and part counter-mapping. The trace elements of the experience serve as a field guide on relating meaningfully to the environmental, political, or social changes of our moment.
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spelling doaj-art-dd5e7be454ff414390c6a95d1d5d7fe52025-08-20T02:27:58ZdeuTurismo de Galicia-S.A. de Xestión do Plan XacobeoAd Limina2659-58852024-07-01XVXV8311410.61890/adlimina/15.2024/03Pilgrimage as a Medium: Teaching Art on the Camino de SantiagoRoxana Pérez-Méndez 0Mario Marzan1 Founder + Co-Director, Drawn to the Camino Walking Artist Residency ProgramFounder + Co-Director, Drawn to the Camino Walking Artist Residency ProgramWalking as a social art practice is a pedagogical tool for teaching pilgrimage, allowing students to map their experiences onto a millennia-old tradition while forming a dialogue with the expansive surrounding landscape. Liminal in form and transformative in experience, aesthetic pedestrianism and the performance of pilgrimage share many commonalities, both functioning as performative actions and as ritual reenactments of our shared human condition. This paper will present as a case study the work of artists and professors Roxana Pérez-Méndez and Mario Marzán, who utilize pilgrimage through the context of an embodied walking art practice. By viewing the Camino de Santiago as a site for creative inquiry, students on their journey become intimately tied to the creation process—part social practice, part radical healing, and part counter-mapping. The trace elements of the experience serve as a field guide on relating meaningfully to the environmental, political, or social changes of our moment.https://www.caminodesantiago.gal/en/knowledge-and-research/ad-limina/article?content=/70-Conecementos-e-investigacion/.content/ad-limina/.content/artigos-adlimina/AD15-04.xml?revista=/70-Conecementos-e-investigacion/.content/ad-limina/.content/revistas-adlimina/ADLIMINA-15-2024.xmlwalking as artpilgrimage as pedagogycamino de santiagoembodied cartographycounter mappingsocial practice
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