Award winner
Marŝarto23 shortlisted
Monique Besten is a visual artist, writer and educator who focuses on slow ways of being, likes to work site-specific and researches walking as an artistic medium. She is based in the Netherlands and Spain but is mainly at home where her feet are. She is a long-term collaborator of The Dark Mountain Project, teaches Performance Art at the University of the Arts Utrecht (NL) and is a keen Natural Farmer. Walking has been an important part of her work & working process in many different ways. Since 2012 she made 8 long distance performative walks in a business suit, some over 1000 kilometres long. In 2021 her first book ”The Wanderer. A traveller born out of words” was published.
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exercises in being here
To believe
· 14 Mar, 2020
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exercises in being here
Letter to a dear friend
· 11 Jan, 2020
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exercises in being here
At the heart of things
· 1 Dec, 2019
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exercises in being here
Morning song
· 24 Nov, 2019
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exercises in being here
always the sea
· 24 Nov, 2019
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Birdwatching
· 9 Sep, 2019
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exercises in being here
Cookie overload
· 28 Aug, 2019
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seeds
· 27 Aug, 2019
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Identifying seeds
· 8 Aug, 2019
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exercises in being here
A stone protruding from the ground
· 31 Jul, 2019
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One way to (not) enter home
· 25 Jul, 2019
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exercises in being here
High time to build a dragonfly
· 23 Jul, 2019
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Elsewhere
· 1 Jun, 2019
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exercises in being here
this is where the clouds grow
· 21 May, 2019
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exercises in being here
When we had wings
· 20 May, 2019
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When I had wings
· 20 May, 2019
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exercises in being here
On the edge of the middle of nothing
· 19 May, 2019
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exercises in being here
wor(l)ds
· 18 May, 2019
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The sea and the sky were restless today
· 24 Apr, 2019