Walking as Medium (more)

Walking is not quite the point.
If the Situationists walked drunkenly through Paris it was not to insist upon the artistic potential of walking, it was to rethink aspects of social space. Walking is just a means of shifting beyond ordinary artistic practices of representation. It eludes conventional artistic formalisation. It is ephemeral.
But now it emerges as a genre of artistic practice. There is a tradition of artistic walking.
Has it actually attained to the status of medium?
But if it has, it is only problematically. Firstly, it is a profoundly egalitarian medium. Anybody can do it, even somebody in a wheelchair. There is no particular skill required. Nor does artistic walking instantly distinguish itself from ordinary walking. Artistic walking lacks not only a specialised skill set but also any particular demand for a sophisticated conceptual schema (artistic conceit). It can simply be walking. Yet this is complex. It both undermines the conventional medium and yet then celebrates similar values of sensible engagement.