Ernesto Pujol is a multidisciplinary cultural laborer best known for social choreographies enacting the secret histories of communities in pain through public poetics, pursuing the cathartic release and healing of historically embedded trauma often due to colonization. Pujol has accompanied his field practice with nonfiction critical writings, promoting experiential education within society and the environment, thus founding The Listening School Project while also responding to the crisis and loss of democracy in the United States. Since 2006, Pujol has increasingly worked with ecologists and horticulturists regenerating violated natural spaces through rewilding and gardening, while also developing various forms of creative writing as imaginative tools for social change. Pujol is the author of seminal texts such as Sited Body, Public Visions: silence, stillness & walking as Performance Practice (2012), Walking Art Practice: Reflections on Socially Engaged Paths (2018), and, more recently, The Dog Walker of Philadelphia (2024), experimenting with the novel as a social form. Pujol teaches master workshops on the psychic architecture of the creative process for professionals, regardless of discipline, and serves as a Listening Scholar to institutions and programs.
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