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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walking (sideways)
Why would you want a river when somebody offers you a fjord?
· 6 Oct, 2012
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walking (sideways)
Plastic Metaal Kathedraal
· 6 Oct, 2012
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walking (sideways)
Plastic Metaal Kathedraal
· 6 Oct, 2012
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walking (sideways)
Retracing the missing link
· 6 Oct, 2012
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walking (sideways)
Plastic dreams
· 6 Oct, 2012
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walking (sideways)
Plastic dreams
· 6 Oct, 2012
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walking (sideways)
Hunting & gathering day 4
· 5 Oct, 2012
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walking (sideways)
Hunting & gathering day 4
· 5 Oct, 2012
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walking (sideways)
Hunting & gathering day 3
· 4 Oct, 2012
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walking (sideways)
Hunting & gathering day 3
· 4 Oct, 2012
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walking (sideways)
sunglassloss
· 4 Oct, 2012
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walking (sideways)
sunglassloss
· 4 Oct, 2012
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walking (sideways)
plastic memory
· 3 Oct, 2012
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walking (sideways)
plastic memory
· 3 Oct, 2012
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walking (sideways)
Hunting and gathering day 2
· 3 Oct, 2012
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walking (sideways)
Hunting and gathering day 2
· 3 Oct, 2012
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walking (sideways)
Hunting and gathering day 1
· 2 Oct, 2012
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walking (sideways)
Hunting and gathering day 1
· 2 Oct, 2012
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walking (sideways)
Plastic route (65.9 km)
· 2 Oct, 2012
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walking (sideways)
future cucumbers
· 1 Oct, 2012