Pilgrimage as a Medium: Teaching Art on the Camino de Santiago

Pilgrimage serves as a transformative medium for teaching art, blending social practice, healing, and counter-mapping. This study highlights the Camino de Santiago as a site for creative inquiry, where students engage with millennia-old traditions through embodied walking art practices. Artists Roxana Pérez-Méndez and Mario Marzán demonstrate how aesthetic pedestrianism—liminal in form and performative in nature—facilitates dialogue between pilgrims and their surroundings, mapping personal experiences onto historical and environmental narratives. The approach reveals pilgrimage as a radical tool for meaningful engagement with social, political, and ecological changes, offering a field guide for navigating contemporary challenges through artistic practice.

Pérez-Méndez, R., Marzán, M.,. (2024). Pilgrimage as a Medium: Teaching Art on the Camino de Santiago. Ad Limina, XV(15), 83–114. https://doi.org/10.61890/adlimina/15.2024/03