Overfull: The Immateriality of Walking

In this chapter, authors report on a research practicePracticeresearch practice that involved one of the authors in walking as an artArt practice, carried out over several months. They draw from the work of scholars who are interested in appearances and forcesForce that unfold in encountersEncounter. The authors engage their ideas in analyzing the relational effects of walking and other forms of artmaking in this research, as evidenced through images and writingWriting created throughout the walking arrangement. In the generativeGenerative experienceExperience of walking, binariesBinaries that have been strategic to educational thought, such as pastPast /presentPresent, fact/fiction, mind/body, materialMaterial /immaterialImmaterial, are found to be less opposed and more constitutive of each other, creating new arrangements and events of overfull possibilityPossibility.