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
High time to build a dragonfly
· 23 Jul, 2019
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Elsewhere
· 1 Jun, 2019
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this is where the clouds grow
· 21 May, 2019
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When we had wings
· 20 May, 2019
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When I had wings
· 20 May, 2019
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On the edge of the middle of nothing
· 19 May, 2019
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wor(l)ds
· 18 May, 2019
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The sea and the sky were restless today
· 24 Apr, 2019
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The wondrous world of garbage containers
· 22 Apr, 2019
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Mercury
· 23 Mar, 2019
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Random acts of kindness versus random acts of violence
· 18 Mar, 2019
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Foresight
· 17 Mar, 2019
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polaroid spring
· 4 Mar, 2019
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Woman’s prayer
· 4 Mar, 2019
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A storyteller about storytelling
· 2 Mar, 2019
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Fishing
· 28 Feb, 2019
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Garden feelings
· 28 Feb, 2019
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Alice in Wonderland
· 19 Feb, 2019
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watching
· 19 Feb, 2019
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Here is where we meet
· 16 Feb, 2019