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Don't forget to upload your sky photo to artist Iman Tajik!
Our annual Slow Marathon walking event this year will be done remotely, yet together. Whatever our different circumstances, we all live under the same sky. The sky, like the virus knows no borders. As an act of hope, solidarity and resilience, we will cumulatively walk as many miles and marathons as we can and as slow as we like. In our small pockets of outdoor access, from our living rooms and around our homes, we will together symbolically walk* around the globe. The 2020 Slow Marathon will finish when we jointly have walked the 40,075 km / 22,091 miles circumference of the Earth.
Through the Under One Sky project artist Iman Tajik will forge a digitally collaborative relationship with the many walkers across the world. For this he is collecting photos of the sky people see when they look up while walking. These will be brought together in a massive artwork of all of us under one sky.
As we walk, we will be considering our freedom of movement and those whose freedom is restricted by borders, the threat of the virus, or by being caught in the global refugee crisis. Slow Marathon 2020 supports Scottish Detainee Visitors, who provide friendship and advocacy for residents of Dungavel House, Scotland's only immigration detention centre. Throughout the course of the project we're also proud to have supported Care4Calais and Oxfam's work with refugees and the world's poorest.
* A walk isn’t always a walk! We hope that everyone can join us, whether that’s on two legs, less or more, or on wheels. It’s not about how many miles, km or metres we cover individually, it’s about what we achieve together. Every contribution will help us thread our collaborative trail across the surface of our planet and through as many borders as we can.
About Slow Marathon: co-concepted with Ethiopian artist Mihret Kebede in 2012, Slow Marathon is our annual walking event. Celebrating the human pace, it is both an endurance event as well as a poetic act, that brings together friendship, physical activity and an appreciation of our varied landscape. Before responding to the pandemic, this year’s Slow Marathon was initially planned for Saturday 13 June as a 26mile/42km walk from Cabrach to Huntly.
Illustration: Jacques Coetzer
