To ignite others,
or what your journeys change into
If great travelers had given us geographical maps of the lands and seas they had discovered before, then our contemporaries could create semantic maps, which also means a lot.
In 44 AD, Apostle James was tortured to death. His body was placed in a boat and was let swim free in the Mediterranean. Seven centuries later, namely, in 813, a monk Pelayo led by a lodestar found the shrine with incorruptible relics of Jesus disciple. The cathedral was erected on this site and the town around was named Santiago de Compostela. Since then hundreds of thousands devotees had pilgrimized to that hole place.
By the XVI century the popularity of the pilgrimage had decreased due to plague epidemic and political instability of that time. In 1986 году Santiago Pathway was run by just 400 pilgrims. Among them was one who revived the past.
It was Paulo Coelho whose "The Pilgrimage" was based on his travel impressions of Santiago de Compostela. The year after the book publication more than half a million pilgrims followed this route.
By the XVI century the popularity of the pilgrimage had decreased due to plague epidemic and political instability of that time. In 1986 году Santiago Pathway was run by just 400 pilgrims. Among them was one who revived the past.
It was Paulo Coelho whose "The Pilgrimage" was based on his travel impressions of Santiago de Compostela. The year after the book publication more than half a million pilgrims followed this route.
Anna Perevozchikova told us her story about cycling pilgrimage to Santiago at one of Travel Club sessions.
Such stories are not unprecedented in modern history. Until Whistler no one had noticed London fogs, until Van Gogh nobody had cared for Provence cypress, until J. K. Jerome not a person could have imagined that boating down the Thames could be so funny. Seville without Byron, Toledo without El Greco, Pamplona without Hemingway, or Verona without Shakespeare… could they have become centers of "gravity" and power for tourists as they are now?
Who knows, you might be capable of doing the same. Just give a try! You may not write a masterpiece but your itinerary, your ides can be a pull for somebody else. As it was with Thomas Cook whose travel notes during the first round the world trip were not particularly artful but nourished Verne imagination resulted in "Round the world in 80 days".
However, it can work!
Who knows, you might be capable of doing the same. Just give a try! You may not write a masterpiece but your itinerary, your ides can be a pull for somebody else. As it was with Thomas Cook whose travel notes during the first round the world trip were not particularly artful but nourished Verne imagination resulted in "Round the world in 80 days".
However, it can work!
... a city taxi brings me to the outskirts of Sukhumi, and stops among the orchards… Calmness . Not a passer-by in the street. Everybody's busy. They are likely to be busy relaxing as the noon is arriving. The noon is a state. You cannot see or hear it, you can feel with your senses, you just know it. Everything comes to a stop; the air gets dense and ripples giving birth to mirages instead of wind. Stillness.
… you are looking at the world from the outside. Reality vanishes and you do not believe that everything that is going on is true, you wish it never to seize, but realize it will end. The joy of things as they are now is accompanied with light, but universe – scale sadness and an acute desire to grab it all, here and now, and you imbibe hot air, and the sun, and calmness, and smells through every pore and become aware that there is so much left that soon you will not be able to contain, and still imbibe…
|Viktor Filimonov, Komany
… you are looking at the world from the outside. Reality vanishes and you do not believe that everything that is going on is true, you wish it never to seize, but realize it will end. The joy of things as they are now is accompanied with light, but universe – scale sadness and an acute desire to grab it all, here and now, and you imbibe hot air, and the sun, and calmness, and smells through every pore and become aware that there is so much left that soon you will not be able to contain, and still imbibe…
|Viktor Filimonov, Komany
The story inspired by a trip to Abkhazia in the summer of 2008.
Vitality brought from you trip can take any form. Artistic intellectuals need change of scene, they cannot live and work without delving into other visual, tactile, sonic worlds.
A fashion designer from Yekaterinburg Larissa Selyanina is one of these people.
Vitality brought from you trip can take any form. Artistic intellectuals need change of scene, they cannot live and work without delving into other visual, tactile, sonic worlds.
A fashion designer from Yekaterinburg Larissa Selyanina is one of these people.
When do I feel good? What makes me happy? What makes me realize "I'm alive"?
Two things – communication and adventures.
Life scatters both gifts generously.
I don't invent ornaments – I travel a lot! I've been to any place imaginable to collect them!
Two things – communication and adventures.
Life scatters both gifts generously.
I don't invent ornaments – I travel a lot! I've been to any place imaginable to collect them!
I came to the ocean shore in the morning, it spat out huge shells intricately interwoven in sea weeds. In the afternoon I watched the play of shadows rampant plants of Indonesia casted on the sand designing fabulous patterns. In the evenings I admired incredible sunsets. This travel convinced me in my strong connectedness with nature, which I hadn't been aware of. I'll name the collection inspired by these images "The Aztecs" trying to convey wild nature beauty as by joining in one seems to be able to fathom its mystery
As long as I'm alive – I travel, create my collections, write books and pack my luggage again, sometimes, all this simultaneously. It is an endless circle.
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Is this story not yours again?
There are a lot of other solutions. I personally got enthralled by the idea of one-reeler which will tell people about my discoveries, craving for travel and opening the world. I made some attempts to drag down others – at "the Art of travel exhibition" we presented 15 runners on traveling short by enthusiasts knowing a lot of what road drive and shrill of the world are. These films are shot by Yekaterinburg and the Ural residents. They were first shown at «Movement of Life» festival. The atmosphere after a 4-hour run was charged with energy to such an extent that we were about to leave everything behind and head for somewhere. And we did not want that energy fill only viewers presented in the cinema hall (a bit more than 300). At the exhibition thousands of visitors have seen them.
You can see some of them here.
There are a lot of other solutions. I personally got enthralled by the idea of one-reeler which will tell people about my discoveries, craving for travel and opening the world. I made some attempts to drag down others – at "the Art of travel exhibition" we presented 15 runners on traveling short by enthusiasts knowing a lot of what road drive and shrill of the world are. These films are shot by Yekaterinburg and the Ural residents. They were first shown at «Movement of Life» festival. The atmosphere after a 4-hour run was charged with energy to such an extent that we were about to leave everything behind and head for somewhere. And we did not want that energy fill only viewers presented in the cinema hall (a bit more than 300). At the exhibition thousands of visitors have seen them.
You can see some of them here.
Between sky and water
Southern Urals 2014
Polar kaleidoscope
Just Majoy
Velo Semirechye 2013
Paradise
EVP
Introduction
1. The idea
2. Tools
3. A long journey
3.1. Community participation
3.2. Viewers' involvement
3.3. A move towards people
3.4. Collecting artifacts and stories
3.5. Viewers – co-authors in copy-writing
3.6. Collaborative exposition design
3.7. Testing
3.8. Participatory zones
3.9. Exhibition catalogue in 2.0. format
3.10. Participants and co-authors motivation
4. Research on the world of travel
4.1. Origins of geobiography
4.2. Roads we choose
4.3. Make up your mind!
4.4. To discover the world
4.5. To ignite others
5. Perception
Results (Visitors' social portrait, Visitors satisfaction level and underlying factors, The respondents' assessment of the project concept innovation, Visitors' assessment of separate exhibition halls)
Acknowledgements
1. The idea
2. Tools
3. A long journey
3.1. Community participation
3.2. Viewers' involvement
3.3. A move towards people
3.4. Collecting artifacts and stories
3.5. Viewers – co-authors in copy-writing
3.6. Collaborative exposition design
3.7. Testing
3.8. Participatory zones
3.9. Exhibition catalogue in 2.0. format
3.10. Participants and co-authors motivation
4. Research on the world of travel
4.1. Origins of geobiography
4.2. Roads we choose
4.3. Make up your mind!
4.4. To discover the world
4.5. To ignite others
5. Perception
Results (Visitors' social portrait, Visitors satisfaction level and underlying factors, The respondents' assessment of the project concept innovation, Visitors' assessment of separate exhibition halls)
Acknowledgements
