«No hay camino» (There Is No Way) on Soy Cámara (CCCB)

«No hay camino» (There Is No Way) is an audiovisual essay from the Soy Cámara online series by the CCCB (2020), directed and written by Albert Alcoz and Alexandra Laudo. It reviews some of the anthropological, social and philosophical meanings of walking and, among its documentation of works that conceive walking as an artistic practice, it includes my project «On the Border».

Walking is a form of knowledge, a way of exploring the possibilities and limits of our surroundings through the body. In the process of hominisation, bipedalism symbolically marked the birth of the human species, and ever since, walking has been an essential activity in people’s development and lives. But the urbanisation and privatisation of natural space hinder the act of walking freely, as do the imperatives of performance, optimisation and productivity. No hay camino reviews some of the anthropological, social and philosophical meanings of walking, and highlights the resistances that oppose this practice today. The visual narration is built through videographic and cinematographic references and, in particular, from visual documentation of artworks that conceive the act of walking as an artistic practice.