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Re-Sounding the Archive: Sound Archives, Memory, and Creative Practice
Online seminar series 1pm, Friday 17, 24 & 31 July This online seminar series brings together leading artists and researchers working with sound archives and creative practice. Across three lunchtime talks, invited speakers will share perspectives from their own artistic and research practices, with a particular focus on how sound archives are listened to, interpreted,
Project Qafila
Project Qafila by Marsad Drâa is a research platform exploring Saharan caravan routes, nomadic life, and desert heritage. It traces historical trade routes, cultural exchange, and the impact of geopolitical conflicts, while documenting the lives of contemporary nomadic families.
Map Scramble 3
The third of an initial series of three Map Scrambles in which walking artists share how each of them documents walking art, specifically be adapting, modifying or creating their own maps. Early last year, Clara Gari of Nau Côclea, our EU partner in the Walking Arts and Local Communities project, hosted a Confluence on ‘documenting
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The good in the bad: 1000 euros for the winner of the SWS Awards 2026
For years now, the news cycle has been saturated with images of war. The current assault on Iran by Israel and the United States brings with it the familiar rhetoric of inevitability, escalation, and abstraction. But though we might be in position to close our eyes to the literal horrors of war, violent conflict is never abstract. Just this
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Spaziergang On An Empty Canvas
Soda Paapi created an ambient documentary featuring Toronto, a ‘walking video’ called 40 Nights in Toronto, where he realised that, sometimes, instead of thinking we need to escape, all we need is a different perspective.His work is shortlisted for the Marŝarto Awards 2025. Below, he is interviewed about the work. In April 2024, Soda Paapi flew from Berlin to
Sunrise Walks – Augmented Topography
Sunrise Walks – Augmented Topography is a walking performance and experimental archive. Three sunrise photos taken in Paris, enhanced with augmented reality data, question the relationship between light, the celestial cycle, and the body's inscription within space.
Map Scramble 2
The second of an initial series of three Map Scrambles in which walking artists share how each of them documents walking art, specifically be adapting, modifying or creating their own maps. Early last year, Clara Gari of Nau Côclea, our EU partner in the Walking Arts and Local Communities project, hosted a Confluence on ‘documenting
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There is growing interest in how each of us documents walking art, especially as walk · listen · create and its predecessor, the Museum of Walking, has been gathering archival walking pieces for almost 10 years. Early last year, Clara Gari of Nau Côclea, our EU partner in the Walking Arts and Local Communities project,
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Dulverton Heritage Audio Trails
Voices of Dulverton; an audio trail comprising of interviews from elderly residents and their early memories of Exmoor. Curated by Christopher Jelley from recordings and interviews by Birdie Johnson recorded around the turn of the millennium.
Articles on WLC
Articles elsewhere
Barbados and Stroud and Stroud and Barbados
At the solstice, on the longest day of the year, I traced long lines across the Atlantic archipelago From Stroud to Africa, from Africa to Barbados, And from Barbados to Stroud railway station. I visited Risée Chaderton-Charles’ exhibition: Cari...
Carol Maurer, Walking Forward, Looking Back (2018-19)
“Walking forward, looking back is a practice-based project utilizing a journey through the landscape. Artist Carol Maurer walks from her ancestral home on the Eastern Shore of Maryland through Delaware to Chester County PA, collecting stories, photos, memories and objects along the route. Rediscovering histories – both true and false. The journey began as a […]
Marie Christine Katz, Let’s Take a Walk (2009-)
“This project began in 2009 as a virtual Twitter guided walk. Participants from anywhere in the world join in via @mcayer. Over time it evolved into an on site performance as well. So far there have been more than 55 walks; each is a shared moment—a step towards peace. Walking together, though apart, we’ll journey […]
What makes a footpath?
What makes the foot feel the foot? What makes a footpath, a walking path? What goes into making the ground beneath your feet yours? What does it take for a footpath to make walking a choice and not a constraint? The ordinary (rather, pedestrian) footpaths documented in this photo essay shift the focus from the celebrated and consistently developed centre to the ignored and faded margins of the city, making sidewise gleams at the multiple experiences nestling here possible. … Continue reading What makes a footpath? →
Events
The Blue Parade (what the body knows)
The Blue Parade is a participatory walking artwork created by Stefaan van Biesen and Annemie Mestdagh for the “Walking Practices/Walking Art/Walking Bodies” meeting in Prespes, Greece. The piece consists of a portable, ultramarine-blue textile structure carried collectively through the landscape as a “nomadic library.” Participants walk together, collect small objects from the environment, and place them in attached PET bottles, creating a mobile archive of local memory and identity. The act of carrying the canvas fosters awareness, cooperation, and a temporary community, turning the walk into a sensory, reflective ritual that highlights embodied knowledge, shared experience, and themes of journey and displacement.
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