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Highlights
Museum Highlights: A Gallery Talk
Museum Highlights: A Gallery Talk is a video where Andrea Fraser, in the role of fictional docent Jane Castleton, leads a satirical tour of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The performance critiques museum values, taste, and class, drawing attention to institutional ideologies and assumptions.
Artwork for Lifelines: Interview with Matina Galati – Julian Hoffman
I first met Matina Galati in a grove of extraordinary juniper trees on a limestone mountain above the Prespa lakes where I live in northern Greece. That day, I’d been walking with the Hungarian gar… Source: Artwork for Lifelines: Interview with Matina Galati – Julian Hoffman
• iAmbic Pedometer: Ur Manoeuvre
iAmbic Pedometer is an iPhone video of Brennan walking through Sunderland, mixing ambient sound with murmured, poetic utterances. Drawing on Wordsworth, Schwitters, and the idea of the ur, it links language’s sonic origins to the rhythm of walking.
Poema Volcánico (Volcanic Poem)
Eduardo Navarro project for Bienal de Cuenca 12, in Ecuador, investigating how to capture a volcano's energy and using it as a transformative tool. He used a special suit to get to the volcano crater protected from the suplur and high temperatures, to create drawings in a partnership with the GuaGua Pichincha active volcano, using litmus paper, which measured the acidity in the gas emissions produced by the fumaroles inside the crater.
Memory corrosion
The first canvas captures the initial stages of memory corrosion, where fragmented recollections intertwine with the act of walking. Here, blurred images and disjointed pathways symbolize the fleeting nature of memory as one navigates through the labyrinth of the mind. In the second canvas, wandering takes center stage as memories meander through subconscious landscapes. Tangled brushstrokes and obscured landmarks evoke the sensation of drifting aimlessly, mirroring the unpredictable nature of memory recall. The final canvas embodies letting go as memories dissolve into ethereal landscapes of abstraction. Fading colors and fading contours signify the gradual release of attachment to the past, allowing space for new experiences and narratives to emerge.
Walking pieces
Lucas’ Kopfkino
While the children in the auditorium look spellbound at the screen, movie character Lucas is bored. After all, he already knows exactly what will happen next. Every time the film is shown, exactly the same things happen. And each time, Lucas plays only an unimportant supporting role, while his friends Anna and Yassin take center stage. But that’s over now! Lucas leaves the movie and sets out to have an adventure of his own in the real world.
People Watched But Could Not See
My work reflects on how my chronic illness imprisoned me, rendering me unable to walk even up a flight of stairs. This piece explores the multidimensionality of disability to portray an intimate dialogue on the journey to reclaim mobility.
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Layers of kin – exploring plant communication in Toronto
This week I am in Toronto, exploring this fascinating city while also being able to see on of my TransArts Institute PhD researchers major works – Angela Vitovec’s layers of kin (https://tdt.org/angela-vitovecs-layers-of-kin/). Experiencing this work as Angela envisioned it as a choreographer was really important to witness as her creative research is so much about […]
The 61st Venice Biennale and the Feeling of Elsewhere
A Guide to In Minor Keys by GessoThere are cities that ask you to move quickly and there are cities that insist you surrender your sense of direction.Venice belongs to the second category.Nothing here unfolds in a straight line. You follow sound before...
Events
and we walk: A Silent Meditative Walk with Harri Harrison
About Harri Harrison Harri Harrison is a multimedia artist whose practice integrates performance, textbased projections, plant-based work, and alternative photography processes, engaging directly with urban environments. Harri explores notions of place, community, grief, gratitude, and belonging, inviting us to reconsider our relationship to nature and future communities. Harri has over 12 years of experience leading creative workshops, collaborating with institutions such as Cubitt Gallery, PEER Gallery, and Phytology at Bethnal Green Nature Reserve.
Closing reception for Walking, Lost and Found exhibition
Artist statement: I am pilgrim #15749 on the Walk of Wisdom, a self-guided path that winds through the eastern part of the Netherlands. In July 2024, a dear friend and I spent eight days walking alongside fields and waterways, atop dikes, up and down hills, through forests and sandy heaths. We walked through towns and villages, over bridges and canals, in sunshine and in rain. Walking made new learning possible. I learned to know the feel of different surfaces through the soles of my feet. I learned to know the strength of my own body and the endurance needed to keep putting one foot in front of another. I learned to greet new neighbors as we repeatedly encountered brambles and nettles, yarrow and rowanberry, gradually attuning myself to the surroundings and learning to listen in this place. The eight-part text of this sound piece is a meditation upon the rhythm of walking, getting lost and found, the strange becoming familiar as we learn to walk in a new way. ***The piece on exhibit here is a 2-channel version of an 8-channel sound piece that I made at the Sound Studies Institute, University of Alberta, Canada, in January 2025.
At 100 on the Snail Trail – Strollology takes to the Streets in Davos in 2025
To mark the 100th birthday of Swiss sociologist Lucius Burckhardt and the 100th anniversary of the end of the ban on cars in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland, strollologist Christian Ratti and walking artist Marie-Anne Lerjen invite you to take part in a walking experiment in the Swiss mountain town of Davos.
• Slow Walk to Nowhere II: The Green Path
Jul 16.2025 6:30pm - 8:00pm Starting point: Hales-MacKay Shelter, by the parking lot off the College St. Arboretum entrance (Guelph, Ontario, Canada) https://artgalleryofguelph.ca/program/walking-as-remapping-slow-walk-to-nowhere-part-ii-the-green-path-with-dawn-matheson/?fbclid=IwY2xjawLY68tleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFFc1JxR0xpVnA0V3FxZVlXAR7kO6_4k2CPMrnsHmoxqXjT71217Q6BzhXJzfJefxC-Rfg5q08E6k9HAKwuuA_aem_49kIop-Trsg_VR_g5JHUDg
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Walking and Art
Janette Kerr: Extreme Seas 