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New Directions: The theory and practice of radical mapmaking in India

Livingmaps Network
2026-03-11 13:00
Online

Join us for the final event in our Livingmaps Network Seminar Series, Mapping Fluid Worlds, With Savyasachi Anju Prabir: In which we discuss the theory and practice of radical mapmaking in India with a short film screening of Altodi Poltodi

video 2026  

Art, Body, Ritual and Camera (WALC Online Course Session 4)

First session of the block "Walking as shared world Making" as part of the online course "Walking Arts and Local Communities" in the frame of the Creative Europe Cooperation project WALC.

WALC Course
WALC
Sound walk
Sound walk SWS24 2023

Orasaigh

Orasaigh is a geolocative acousmatic soundwalk composition that draws upon the landscape around the tidal island of Orasaigh, located on the coast of South Uist at Boisdale.

Sound walk
Sound walk 2018

Entangled in the Mesh

Entangled in the Mesh is a geolocative soundwalk at Campus Ås, Norway, featuring deadwood sculptures and multiple layered soundscapes accessible via the Locosonic app or loaned devices. The project explores interconnected ecological networks and non-human perspectives through sonic landscapes, durational sculptures, and multisensory experiences reflecting geological time scales and speculative futures.

Happened
walkingevent  

WALC Online course Session 4 : Walking the World / Marcher le Tout-Monde: Mobility, Anthropology, and Artistic Practice

2026-03-28 08:30

This session reflects on walking across cultures in Europe, Asia, Africa, and North America. Through films and field-based artworks, Sylvie Marchand presents her ethnographic and artistic approach shaped by the movements of the communities she works with.

WALC Course
WALC
post Featured 12 Jun, 2025

Wanderers of Earth and Sky: Walking as Art in a Time of Crisis

In early 2023, we hosted Teri Rueb and Bill Gilbert for an online cafe, called Being led by the stars, in which they shared a powerful and poetic conversation about their practices, which both revolve around walking, not merely as movement, but as a way of knowing, resisting, and reconnecting, bringing together a global audience to explore how walking art engages with celestial rhythms, climate anxieties, and questions of embodiment in the Anthropocene

Spatial Anthropology

Les Roberts
video 2021  

Walking in the Anthropocene – Planetary Walking

Walking arts today became a response to the deep environmental global crisis we are facing today. Walking is one of the keys to contextualize and deepen our understanding and relation with the planet place we live on. It is more and more clear that the future will be ecological or there will not be a future for our species.

Walking as a Question
Walking piece
Walking piece 2015

Cracks on the Soundwalk

The soundwalk blog features evolving soundscape compositions made from recordings collected during the International Conference on Deleuze and Artistic Research (DARE) 2015 in Ghent. These audio walks, contributed to by participants, are designed for listening while walking through the city and conference venues.

Happened
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Journey Lines: Making or Breaking Places

Art Walk Projects
2024-02-08 15:30
287 Portobello High Street, Portobello, Edinburgh, UK

Journey Lines is a discussion betwen Anthropologist Tim Ingold and artist Claudia Zeiske reflecting on her Slow Coast 500 walk along the entire 700 miles long North Sea coast of Scotland. It reflects on making or breaking of places through tourism.

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Attraverso la notte

2022-07-07 18:00
Teatre Principal d'Olot, Passeig d'en Blay, Olot, Spain

A walk from evening to dawn with the Marsala collective (Italy)

Walking Art and Relational Geographies (2022)
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walkingevent  

What questions are better asked from Prespa than elsewhere? (remote)

HUB Prespa
2021-07-08 16:00
Online

Talk/Walk:A talk filled with many questions followed by a wordless walkThe talk can be given remotely, the walk can only be taken in Prespa. We are animate forms of life, when walking we insert ourselves amongst other animate forms of life as rhythms, we walk in concert. Choreographer Maxine Sheets-Johnstone argues that Movement is our

Walking as a Question
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Articles elsewhere

Chiragh Dilli 90

Of gaddhas and ghumna: Women traversing life and landscape in the city

As I journeyed through the city with these women, I had been thinking a lot about landscapes. When the parts of the story no longer seemed to coalesce into a plot, I thought about how incongruous things can hang together in a place, in an atmosphere. And so, I found that the antidote to my own growing vertigo was to join these women on excursions (ghumna) around the city. Though these outings happened infrequently, to go ghumna was a favourite activity of many of the women I spent time with. These women, who hailed from poor, predominantly Muslim neighbourhoods such as Nizamuddin Basti, Okhla, and Jaitpur, spent much time plotting the next opportunity to go ghumna, often concocting elaborate cover-ups for family members.… Continue reading Of gaddhas and ghumna: Women traversing life and landscape in the city →

Samprati Pani
Chiragh Dilli 65

Windows to the city

I’ve been thinking about windows. Since I moved cities, I’ve been thinking about windows. And looking at and through them. Through this looking, I move forward with time, sometimes attempt to hold it still, and at other times, let it take me elsewhere, to a time that has passed or is perhaps waiting for me. Some windows and their views remind me of other windows in other places, including windows that live in books and films, all real because of the feelings they evoke and the meanings they reveal or don’t. I write this piece as live in a new city, with curiosity and hesitation, looking at it through its windows and through the other windows these open up.… Continue reading Windows to the city →

Samprati Pani
POINTS D'OU... 35

Rester et re-venir au monde

L’artiste ne doit pas être un fossoyeur d’espoir, qui montre un monde si désespéré que ses récits nous pousseraient au … Plus

Gilles Malatray
The Carry Princip... 35

RECORDING AN EXCEPTIONAL STATE OF URBAN SOUNDSCAPESLoading up…

RECORDING AN EXCEPTIONAL STATE OF URBAN SOUNDSCAPESLoading up files to Silent Cities: A participatory monitoring program of an exceptional modification of urban soundscapes, organised by Nicolas Farrugia, Amandine Gasc, Jeremy Froidevaux and Samuel Cha...

The Carry Principle

Videos

video SWS21 2021  

Sound walking in the Anthropocene

Sound artist Anne Cecilie Lie invites to a discussion around sound walking in the Anthropocene and raises questions about global technology and ecology, how it affects art practices by working with locative technologies and smartphones.

Sound Walk City · prelude

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THE LRM

The LRM is an organization focused on the documentation, preservation, and exploration of ephemeral and site-specific artworks, particularly those that intersect with cultural geography and public space. It functions as an archival platform that collects and curates research materials on walking-based art practices, environmental interventions, and other performative actions that engage with landscapes and urban environments. The LRM emphasizes the historical and contemporary significance of these practices by providing detailed records, artist interviews, critical essays, and visual documentation. The platform serves as a resource for scholars, artists, and researchers interested in the ways art interacts with geographic and social contexts. Through its extensive archive, The LRM highlights the intersection of art, geography, and anthropology, underscoring how walking and movement in space can operate as a form of artistic inquiry and cultural critique. The collection includes a range of artworks that challenge traditional gallery spaces, focusing instead on the dynamic and temporal qualities of art situated in physical environments.
Organisations

GPS, geo-poetic system

Geo-poetic system was a term coined by Lucy Frears during locative media art research (published 2017). The basis of geopoetics, a theory and practice developed by Scottish philosopher and poet Kenneth White, is to connect humans to the lines of the earth (White cited in McManus 2007: 183), or ‘what’s out there’ (Ingold 1993; 154; White 2005: 200; White 2006: 9). The contact White describes is often between the human mind and the earth, what he calls ‘landscape-mindscape’ (Legendre 2011: 121). Because of the embodied nature of locative media experiences using a smartphone in landscape for these walking art experiences using gps technologies Frears expanded this notion to being ‘landscape-mindscape-bodyscape’ (2017).

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