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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Living
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Dreamers
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to bumble
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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
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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 -
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Bird thoughts
· 24 Dec, 2018 -
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when art is death
· 28 Nov, 2018 -
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still
· 28 Nov, 2018 -
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Terra incognita
· 3 Nov, 2018 -
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in a landscape
· 3 Nov, 2018 -
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Visitors
· 1 Nov, 2018 -
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Looking for Jesus and Jeanette
· 28 Oct, 2018 -
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Present
· 20 Oct, 2018