The Pollinators
Inspired by Hakim Bey's “Overcoming Tourism,” the Pollinators/Peregrini seek to revive ritual pilgrimage as a unique mode of cultural travel, where the journey is as important as reaching the sacred goal. Itinerant performers who make the road their means of cultural expression, the Pollinators embark on a possible future where ethics, ritual, and a sense of the sacred are re-embedded in daily life. The modus operandi is that of ancient pilgrims, summoning the potential of new technologies in an old world, travelling through inner, outer and virtual space, taking contemporary artistic practice on the road and reinvigorating those they encounter along the way.
- The vision and implementation of The Pollinators and their trip along a fold in a European train map
- All you need to know about The Peregrini journey
- The first steps of preparing the trip in a Saints and Venerative Places Workshop
- A comparison between biking and hiking as modes of resilient travel by Theun Karelse, a participant in The Peregrini and Unmanned Resilience journeys
- Blogging on the road: by nadine and Performing Pictures
- Various Artists explore(s) how to create on the move in Being Boucalais
- Travelogues and personal meditations of Carla Garlaschi in Las Cosas Importantes, Notas del Bosque and Caminando por el Dundo, in Spanish
- questioning a ubiquitous site of consumerism, Ceci est un magasin de vêtements reappropriates the “boutique” shop as a space of alternative artistic practice by divesting it of its primary purpose, the sale of clothes
- Some related fieldwork: The Hike Guy and his journals → http://www.thehikeguy.com/2012/04/11/recent-journals/