The Walk Book fits perfectly in your hand and can be carried everywhere. It works like a garden, inviting you to follow its paths that branch off in different directions. Like a labyrinth, the book has more than one entrance. You can enter it to read the texts, or to look at the images, or to listen to Janet Cardiff's voice on a CD included with the book as she guides you through the texts and images. It deals with the disappearance of places, and the loss of memory, but also with offering something unique to those who take the book in their hands, something to take with them back in time.
The Walk Book collects and rescues some of Cardiff’s words and dialogues from his walks, transposing them into literary form, and yet, being a walk in itself, dissolves all possible determinations and codifications. By resisting definitions, raising questions and engaging the audience, The Walk Book offers different approaches to the nature and experience of an artistic practice that has emerged as one of the most potent and thought-provoking sites in contemporary culture.
