The City Walks and the Memory in the Artistic Practice

Abstract

The act of walking around the city is an approach that some artists of the second half of the 20th century have given to their creations, getting a dual purpose. On the one hand the moving between different points caused by the need to go to the scene to reconstruct the work. And secondly, the recall of personal history evoked by the feelings aroused by the images found in the act of walking. The tools used to perform these works have evolved from photography and writing of the 60s, to the most sophisticated new technologies and current applications. However, such proposals have common elements related to the cartographic image of the city as a starting point for reflection of society.