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What Walking Art Notices
An attempt at characterising 76 works in the WLC archive suggests that walking art makes urban conditions perceptible in ways that conventional walkability measures rarely do. Through altered routes, sensory attention, collective movement and counter-mapping, these pieces expose the histories, power relations, ecological conditions and embodied constraints that shape how space can be inhabited.
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Walking and Heritage: Embodiment, Place and Memory
From walking arts and guided tours to sacred pilgrimage, how and in what ways do walking practices speak to heritage? This is an invitation to contribute to an edited collection of critical writings and reflective documentation from practices at the intersection of embodiment, site and heritage. The collection attends to walking as a situated practice,
Embracing the Obstacle
A walk is shaped not only by where it leads, but by who takes part. In Beveren, encounters with residents of De Bron and De Stroom show how different bodies, rhythms and vulnerabilities make walking a shared practice of attention, care and belonging.
Border Correspondence
Among the Hannah Arendt Papers at the Library of Congress in Washington is a small collection of coloured envelopes once addressed to Walter Benjamin. They were sent to 10 rue Dombasle, Paris. Orange, yellow, pale blue. Today they are empty, but their surfaces are covered in tiny handwriting: corrected sentences, crossings-out, additions. Benjamin had reused
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What the body has come to know: a collective walking experience
This article first appeared in Anima Loci. Unfolding through the city of Guimarães, Portugal, The Walking Body is an artistic research programme that explores collective walking as a methodology for situated knowledge, creative inquiry and engagement with place. Taking place across three consecutive editions (2024–2026), the programme has generated a range of artistic outputs: from drawings to
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Birds on a Wire
A despatch from our story-writer-in-residence Penny Walker. 13 July 2026, Southport to Tarleton, 13 miles The air is wobbling over the flat land which grows pale brown grass out of grey-red soil. Sweat and suncream on my glasses make me lose focus. I cannot make sense of it. Dry, bone dry, both sides of the flood
The Unyielding Waterland
We arrive in Emmadorp and walk towards the imposing long dike that embraces the Verdronken Land van Saeftinghe like an ancient boundary. Once we reach the top, near Emmahaven, a panorama unfolds that truly reveals the immense scale of this tidal landscape. The horizon seems endless. In the distance, we see a group of walkers
Walking between Worlds. Made of Walking Prosperpolder : walking a landscape
Walking Between Worlds reflects on Made of Walking Prosperpolder as an evolving walking arts practice. Through walks, performances and dialogue, it explores how artists, communities and landscapes co-create long-term ecological and social relationships.
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Participate in the Made of Walking Residency & Lab
Made of Walking – Prosperpolder | 11–17 September 2026, Belgium. A week of walking, art, ecology, care and exchange on the Belgian-Dutch border. Join artists and partners from across Europe. Free participation. Apply by 15 August.
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Wandering as a way of attaining knowledge beyond the material world
That maybe a Sufi quote about dervishes, the whirling kind, of which I read about in To the Lake by Kapka Kassabova: “A precept of dervishism is renouncing possessions, surrendering to the Road.” The subtitle of her book is “A Journey of War and Peace” and, as she writes of her travels along the shores
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To Walk Your Life: Between History and the Present
Our journey, in early July 2026, to Fort Liefkenshoek with Marc Dhaenens, Anna Maria Mestdagh, and me is, to say the least, sobering. The route leads us through a landscape of container terminals, towering loading cranes, bridges, chemical plants, and an almost endless network of roads crowded with heavy trucks moving in every direction. Everything
The bag beneath the seat
You’re flying low-cost and don’t want to pay for checked luggage. You’re allowed one bag, 25 × 40 × 10 cm, small enough to fit under the seat in front of you, and everything you take must earn its place: every piece has to be both essential to you and acceptable by airport security. You’re
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Et si Biarritz était un choeur? (What If Biarritz Were A Chorus?)
I walk to encounter the city, to fill myself with it: my Biarritz, theirs. Could what I am looking for lie in the very movement of walking? The movement of my body, of the city, of water, and the movements that pass through us?
Wat Blijft | What Remains
Voice and Dutch text : Geert Vermeire (writer, performer). Field recordings, composing, production & mixing : Stefaan van Biesen [composition and field recordings in Athens, Venice and Antwerp]. Art exhibition [re]present, Attenhoven Church, Belgium
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YOU — a letter to a stranger
YOU — a letter to a stranger is a sound installation and podwalk in Wergelandsparken, Kristiansand. Eight authors have each written and recorded a letter to a stranger, laid out as echoes across the park and scored by hours of improvised music.
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Listening
For our first Walking Writers Salon after the summer break, and to open Sound Walk September, we are delighted to welcome Canadian writers and researchers Kit Dobson and Ken Wilson in conversation discussing Kit’s Field Notes on Listening. Many of us walk out with scant attention to what we hear, our brains filtering out much,
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Biological field stations and marine labs are place-based institutions primarily focused on science research, science education, and public engagement with science. In the past few decades, there has been a growing interest among field stations and marine labs to invite artists to participate in artist residency programs, art education, and community arts events. We are delighted
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Women Walking, the City, at Night is an international performance in the form of collective night walks, initiated and curated by artist Eléonore Ozanne. The project began in Seville, Spain, in September 2021 during the night of the Harvest Moon. Since then, it has grown into a global action, with women walking together in different cities
• Is this art in public space, or art as public space?
Periferico is Collettivo Amigdala‘s festival of site-specific and community-based artistic practices, active in Modena since 2008. Not a container for shows, but a situated research practice that brings together artists, communities, and specific places across the city. Working with public space raises a question we keep coming back to: is this art in public space,
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Residency Presentations & WALC Network Exchange
Resident artists present work developed during Made of Walking – Prosperpolder 2026, followed by a WALC network exchange on future projects and international collaboration. After Migrating Voices, participants gather for a reception at Meulenberg.
• Absorb Ensemble
A playful participatory walkshop combining somatic practices, chance-based games and collective creative writing. Journey from inner awareness to shared imagination, discovering new ways to connect body, place, others and the stories that emerge betw
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What the body has come to know: a collective walking experience
This article first appeared in Anima Loci. Unfolding through the city of Guimarães, Portugal, The Walking Body is an artistic research programme that explores collective walking as a methodology for situated knowledge, creative inquiry and engagement with place. Taking place across three consecutive editions (2024–2026), the programme has generated a range of artistic outputs: from drawings to
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Made of Walking Prosperpolder and the Future of Walking Arts TThe expression walking arts has become surprisingly familiar. Over the past two decades, it has entered conferences, publications, festivals, university programmes and European projects, bringing together practices that had previously remained dispersed across different artistic and disciplinary traditions.Yet the more familiar the expression has become,
• The Unyielding Waterland
We arrive in Emmadorp and walk towards the imposing long dike that embraces the Verdronken Land van Saeftinghe like an ancient boundary. Once we reach the top, near Emmahaven, a panorama unfolds that truly reveals the immense scale of this tidal landscape. The horizon seems endless. In the distance, we see a group of walkers
Walking between Worlds. Made of Walking Prosperpolder : walking a landscape
Walking Between Worlds reflects on Made of Walking Prosperpolder as an evolving walking arts practice. Through walks, performances and dialogue, it explores how artists, communities and landscapes co-create long-term ecological and social relationships.
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‘Why not try to be the best in the world, just for the fun of it?’ Art Garfunkel on a rich, restless life – and reconciling with Paul Simon | Pop and rock | The Guardian
He taught maths and walked across Europe, trying to leave his demons behind. As he goes back on tour aged 83, the folk-pop legend explains how he came back to singing Source: ‘Why not try to be the best in the world, just for the fun of it?’ Art Garfunkel on a rich, restless life
A walking tour of Andalucía’s historic white villages: ‘Nightingales serenade us as we wind along lush river valleys’ | Andalucia holidays | The Guardian
The famous pueblos blancos in southern Spain’s Sierra de Grazalema natural park teem with wildlife amid a limestone wonderland of peaks Source: A walking tour of Andalucía’s historic white villages: ‘Nightingales serenade us as we wind along lush river valleys’ | Andalucia holidays | The Guardian
Trisha Brown: Walking on the Wall (1971) | visitBerlin.de
“Walking on the Wall” is one of the best-known and most influential works by the American choreographer and conceptual artist Trisha Brown. The piece premiered in 1971 at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and is regarded as a seminal work. Source: Trisha Brown: Walking on the Wall (1971) | visitBerlin.de
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