The artist Richard Long started a career in art by walking.
He has made a lot of indoor works, mostly in response to his outdoor experience, and these stand as conventional gallery works. But the work that intrigues me are his walks. These are many things, but essentially they are performance pieces that make a mark. In many cases, the marks made as art, like the walks made as art, are temporary. This is what makes them performance art. They are temporal.
Showing this is therefore difficult.
In many cases, Long has used text to stand in for experience. Click the word TEXT below to see this.
TEXT
There are a lot of videos of people talking about Long’s gallery work and his walking work, but there are few that simply show how Richard Long’s walking works as art.
These two below show his work well, without recourse to the opinion of third parties.
The link to his own site is below the videos.
Moving Space 