Month: August 2023
September 2023 First Sunday
Dear friends It’s First Sunday again this Sunday and we will be exploring the new landscape around The Factory / Aviva Studios. Meet us at the entrance on Water Street M3 4JQ at 2pm this Sunday, 3rd September Our wander will be guided collectiv...
Walk 134
City WalkKensington, Queen West., Spadina, Dundas, Bloor. A black sculpture of a man, smoke rising from his silhouette. At her local cafe, my lovely cousin got more napkins for our tears. So many people making homes on the streets.Location: Toronto, OntarioLength: 8 kmCompanions: Cousin who met me for coffee along the wayDate: 31 August, 2023 [...]
The Privilege of Walking and Writing: A Journey Down the Street and Across the World
During the past many summers, I’ve explored the relationship between walking and writing. As Kathleen Rooney, our flâneuse laureate of Chicago, wrote “A walk is almost never the fastest way to get somewhere. But both walks and poems can afford a more textured and deep experience of space and time.” Source: The Privilege of Walking
‘Moonwalkers’: These AI-powered strap-on shoes can make you walk three times faster
The AI-powered, TikTok-famous “Moonwalkers” can be strapped onto your shoes to make you reach a top walking speed of 11 km/h. Source: ‘Moonwalkers’: These AI-powered strap-on shoes can make you walk three times faster | Euronews
Interview with Meghan Moe Beitiks
As part of the run up to the hardcover release of my book, Walking as Artistic Practice (softcover comes out in April!), I’m going to be publishing some brief interviews with the various artists, authors, researchers, creatives, collectives, and platforms whose art practice, written material, or other works I cite and mention. My second interview […]
Crìochaire-cladaich/ Keeping close to shore
Since I started my residency* at the Admiral’s House on Skye in early August, I’ve written and rewritten about 5,000 words in short-form texts that relate to periods of attentive listening, observations, and listening back to field recordin...
Aug 31 | Sculpture + Architecture Walking Tour: Cyrus Dallin & Arlington Center | Arlington, MA Patch
Check out the latest community post from one of your neighbors. (The views expressed in this post are the author’s own.) Source: Aug 31 | Sculpture + Architecture Walking Tour: Cyrus Dallin & Arlington Center | Arlington, MA Patch
“Adorning” at Viewpoint Gallery
I hope you’ll join me for the first ever display of my two-dimensional drawing-based Value Studies pieces! These will be on view (and for sale) at Viewpoint Gallery. On view Sept 15-Sept 24, 2023 Reception: Sept 15, 2023 at 5-9pm Viewpoint Gallery591 Hamline Ave N, St. Paul MN 55104 I’ll also be hosting two walking […]
Walk Report: Wandering Rocks 2
For the second walk in our Wandering Rocks series we visited Birmingham city centre for more glacial boulders, geological curiosities and further examples of "beached heritage". The "wandering rocks" of the title refers to the erratic boulders which travelled to Birmingham from Wales on an ice sheet 450,000 years ago. The catalyst for this walk […]
Collective Terms of Action Open Call
Collective Terms of Action Open Call, 2021 North Grid, Some Call Us Balkans, 2021, graphic by Milly Reid, CC BY-SA 4.0 “Collective Terms of Action” (29/11/2021 – 15/01/2022) is the open call of the Some Call Us Balkans project, aimed at artists. Based on the artistic research built throughout the project, the SCUB community is […]
Circles in the Sand, a walkable art experience, completes ninth season – OPB
In the spring and summer, people flock to Bandon to walk on artistic labyrinths in sand that stretch out to the size of a football field. Source: Circles in the Sand, a walkable art experience, completes ninth season – OPB
Interview with Aggie Toppins
As part of the run up to the hardcover release of my book, Walking as Artistic Practice (softcover comes out in April!), I’m going to be publishing some brief interviews with the various artists, authors, researchers, creatives, collectives, and platforms whose art practice, written material, or other works I cite and mention. First up is […]
Walking Zines Now Available
This summer/fall, I’m putting together a few promotional events/workshops/talks to let folks know about the hardcover release of Walking as Artistic Practice. (Softcover comes out in April.) At these workshops, I’m handing out a few free zines that include the exercise we’ll be doing and/or the topic we’ll be discussing (plus lots of illustrated examples). […]
