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
from: the woman without baggage (part 2)
· 5 Oct, 2018
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birthday presents
· 22 Sep, 2018
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Going through life in circles. Grasshoppers, blue memories and the gift of food repeated.
· 16 Sep, 2018
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Home
· 10 Sep, 2018
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From the balcony
· 8 Sep, 2018
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Here Be Dragons
· 22 Apr, 2018
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Seeing things
· 22 Apr, 2018
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To recreate (in) nature
· 21 Apr, 2018
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Fairytale
· 20 Apr, 2018
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40
· 17 Apr, 2018
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The labyrinth
· 9 Apr, 2018
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before, after, inbetween
· 7 Apr, 2018
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Shadows
· 5 Apr, 2018
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The first day.
· 3 Apr, 2018
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Wings
· 1 Apr, 2018
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Old and new connections
· 29 Mar, 2018
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Found and lost
· 28 Mar, 2018
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The power of sound
· 26 Mar, 2018
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It is always time to love
· 25 Mar, 2018
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Growth
· 21 Mar, 2018