Adam Frelin

SLOWWALKER

participatory performance
performance views
2010

In the summer of 2010 I sustained an injury that caused me for weeks to have to walk very slowly. Being a fast-walking person by nature, my perspective on my surroundings were altered dramatically by this simple shift in speed. I wanted to share with others the peculiar sense of presence and invisibility that walking slowly over an extended period of time induces. Conceived as a 1-mph participatory walking event that would last for three hours, each participant moved silently and deliberately by themselves. The first iteration of "SLOWWALKER" took place along Broadway in Manhattan. A second iteration took place through the Cape Cod National Seashore as part of the 2011 Provincetown Green Arts Festival.