Walking Together
Artist Film
Near Dwellers and the Sharing of Breath
Street Road Artists Space, Pennsylvania, USA - 4th Aug - 30th Sept 2023
Walking Together is a meditative walk on horseback through Walthamstow Marshes exploring our relationships with more-than-humans, specifically equines, and inspired by the walking meditations of Vietnamese Buddhist monk and peace activist Thích Nhất Hạnh.
Walking Together opens up opens Near Dwellers, a year-long inquiry on human and animal relationships, with a focus on the spaces and places we share, hosted by Street Road Artists Space and the Tree Museum.
http://www.streetroad.org/near-dwellers-slqs.html
This film was made in collaboration with video and sound artist Bilal Singh and equine partner Spirit of Saigon.
Online Film Premiere and SLQS in conversation with scholar Florence Fitzgerald-Allsopp about how their work rethinks animal-human relationships through the lens of performance art - September 9, 2023, 6-8pm BST (Free, book online)
Selected Film at the Walthamstow International Film Festival 2023
Exhibited at MOMA Machynlleth as part of ROAN/M by SLQS - 22nd April/10th June 2023
“SLQS poignantly reminds us of our place on Earth with its teeming multitude of life forms, and the plain reality of our shared journey: that we share the air as it invisibly loops in and out of all bodies, repeating with every heartbeat.”
— Street Road Artists Space
Breathing in: We are walking together this Earth
Breathing out: This Earth that holds us
In: Walking together
Out: The Earth that holds us
