Looking backwards to walk forward: Walking, collective memory and the site of the intercultural in site-specific performance

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Notes

¹ this practice-based research project was funded by Banco Santander and The University of Northampton (UK)

² The meeting's theme was Citizenship, Performance and Cultural Rights.

³ See her political party's website: http://www.polodemocratico.net/_Ati-Quigua (accessed 7 March 2010).

⁴ The Andean uplands are a unique high-elevation wetland ecosystem providing Bogotá, a metropolis of more than seven million people, with about 70 per cent of its drinking water (Postel 2005: 26). At a moment in global history in which ‘water resources are declining in quantity and quality in virtually every part of the world’ (Waterkeeper Alliance 2010), the aim of Hacer Memoria al Andar was also to enable walker-participants to experience this crucial ecosystem of shared concern and to enable them to realize that it pays to protect it.

⁵ See http://www.todosatierra.com/page/?page_id=46 (accessed 7 March 2010).