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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The heart of a city
· 14 Feb, 2019 -
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magic in the garden
· 13 Feb, 2019 -
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A thought can change in a second
· 11 Feb, 2019 -
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Anticipation
· 6 Feb, 2019 -
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Poetry
· 3 Feb, 2019 -
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Next steps (a walk to the COP 26, 2020)
· 3 Feb, 2019 -
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Man
· 3 Feb, 2019 -
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Then approach nature
· 28 Jan, 2019 -
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Living
· 27 Jan, 2019 -
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Dreamers
· 26 Jan, 2019 -
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to bumble
· 24 Jan, 2019 -
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exercises in being here 2019-01-23 09:28:00
· 23 Jan, 2019 -
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the woman without baggage
· 20 Jan, 2019 -
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On the nature of daylight
· 20 Jan, 2019 -
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roots
· 12 Jan, 2019 -
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Art and nature
· 11 Jan, 2019 -
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Wildlife
· 8 Jan, 2019 -
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llibertat
· 7 Jan, 2019 -
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Kings and queens
· 5 Jan, 2019 -
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A happy new year!
· 30 Dec, 2018