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Walking piece
2007

Most Serene Republics

Most Serene Republics (2007) is Edgar Heap of Birds’s Venice Biennale public art project memorializing Sioux warriors and children who died in Europe, using text-based signage to confront colonial histories and Indigenous displacement.

Walking piece
1962

Dylaby

Dylaby was an exhibition that transformed the Stedelijk Museum into a playful labyrinth, prioritizing participation, bodily engagement, and co-creation over traditional art objects, foreshadowing experiential art of the 1960s.

Curated news New 10 Jun, 2026

This Art Installation Changes When You Walk Through It – Tomorrow’s World Today®

Experience the uniqueness of art through teamLab’s creations that use technology to connect and engage with the audience. Source: This Art Installation Changes When You Walk Through It – Tomorrow’s World Today®

Curated news 09 Jul, 2021

Public art project draws attention to growing number of pedestrian deaths | localmemphis.com

The Heights CDC commissioned artist Colin Kidder to create an art installation honoring Memphians killed walking in 2020. Source: Public art project draws attention to growing number of pedestrian deaths | localmemphis.com

Walking piece
1978

Chain Link Maze

Chain Link Maze (Amherst) by Richard Fleischner is an 8-ft chain-link labyrinth that blends physical, visual, and spatial experiences. Visitors navigate open corridors, see through layers of mesh, and engage with light, landscape, and choice in a contemplative, immersive maze.

Walking piece
2003

120 Doors Pavillion

The 120 Doors Pavilion in Concepción, Chile, consists of steel tubes supporting wooden doors arranged in five perimeters. It explores spatial limits and transitions, using doors to challenge definitions of space, temporality, and boundaries in architecture and art.

Walking piece
1981

The Shadow

In The Shadow, Sophie Calle asks her mother to hire a detective to follow her. The work contrasts his photographs with her own account, reversing observer and observed, and questioning identity through absence and surveillance.

Walking piece
1974

Flux-Labyrinth

Flux-Labyrinth is a one-way, immersive maze by George Maciunas that forces visitors through narrow corridors, awkward doors, and physical obstacles, translating the hardships, ingenuity, and social tensions of 1970s SoHo into bodily experience.

Walking piece
2004

The Mourning After: Duration’s Wisdom II

Duration’s Wisdom II is a meditative walking performance on a 20-ft canvas, depicting the final stage of mourning. Using circular, continuous movements, Erika Knerr processed grief, revisiting loss and reflection, performed in Zaragoza, Spain after the Madrid attacks.

Walking piece
1970

Live-Taped Video Corridor

Live-Taped Video Corridor uses stacked monitors showing live and pre-recorded footage from a corridor camera. Walking down, viewers see themselves shrink on the top screen while unnervingly absent on the bottom, creating a disorienting sense of doubling.

Walking piece
2018

Walking in the Colour Field: Local and Remote

Walking in the Colour Field: Local and Remote is an interactive artwork linking gallery and everyday life, where sensors worn by remote participants and local viewers shape shifting colour displays, reflecting the merging of public and private spaces.

Walking piece
2016

It Takes a Year to Walk Around the Sun

It Takes a Year to Walk Around the Sun is a looped moving-image installation using a floor-projected, rhythmic, disorienting video to evoke physical and psychological immersion. It developed from a year-long performative Instagram project.

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Walking pieces

Sound walk
2020

The humming of bees

The Hive is an art installation by Wolfgang Buttress that simulates the sound of thousands of bees humming, using a soundscape tuned to the key of C, reflecting honeybee vibrations. It serves as a tribute to Britain’s honeybees and raises awareness of the challenges they face.

Articles on WLC

Curated news 13 Jan, 2022

Samuel Eisen-Meyer’s Art Installation “Walking the World With This Fire” Is an Explosive Portrait of American Imperialism

Source: Samuel Eisen-Meyer’s Art Installation “Walking the World With This Fire” Is an Explosive Portrait of American Imperialism

Curated news 16 Apr, 2021

Sounds of Otley to be captured in art installation | Wharfedale Observer

THE SOOTHING sounds of local wildlife will guide listeners around a sonic nature trail in Otley. Source: Sounds of Otley to be captured in art installation | Wharfedale Observer

Curated news 19 Aug, 2020

Walking in the footsteps of refugees as Ellesmere art installation unveiled | Shropshire Star

Visitors to a north Shropshire beauty spot are being encouraged to walk in the footsteps of refugees following the completion of a winding labyrinth at The Mere in Ellesmere. Source: Walking in the footsteps of refugees as Ellesmere art installation unveiled | Shropshire Star

Articles elsewhere

Walking without a... 90

Is There a Place for REVOlution? or Peace and Biscuits

About a graffiti-inspired sound walk / art installation on the Edinburgh cycle paths Chancelot Path under Ferry Road

Tamsin Grainger
Walking without a... 85

Sound Walk – The Wall

My Sound Walk has been short-listed by walklistencreate.com for a Sound Walk September Award 2022. I am delighted. So I made a new film as a taster. You can view it here Also on Vimeo https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/768557562 And on Soundcloud https://soundcloud.com/user-786319665/the-wall to listen to the whole thing. The others on the shortlist Check out all the … Continue reading Sound Walk – The Wall

Tamsin Grainger

fit-stramp

A footstep: I widna geng a fitstramp owre da door efter her.

Added by Janette Kerr
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