Borders & migration
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Highlights
Displacing territories: Project for the border Brazil/Uruguay
Displacing Territories: Project for the Brazil/Uruguay Border is a journey as a solitary traveler that the artist undertook at the end of April through the border zone of the pampas, specifically from Barra do Quaraí to Pelotas.
WALC Online course Session 4 : Walking the World / Marcher le Tout-Monde: Mobility, Anthropology, and Artistic Practice
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 Confluence 12 – 1- WALC course program presentation – 2- El laboratorio, a Migrating voices Franco-Chilean-Mexican exploration
During a thirty-minute experimental *Laboratorio*, artists will experiment with a live performance using rudimentary audiovisual tools and raw materials, far from the giants of the Internet.
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Terminalia February 2026. A provocation | an Expression of interest
This is a call to join in this year’s Terminalia wander for a little light distraction. Celebrated on the last day of the Roman year Terminalia is marked on February 23rd.Terminalia was an ancient Roman festival in honour of the god Terminus, who presided over boundaries. His statue was merely a stone or post stuck
One way to acknowledge migration
Reading Geert Vermeire‘s latest newsletter, I was struck with how important walking art and walking artists have been in acknowledging those unfortunate people who have had to leave their homes, often migrating over vast distances, or switching to cultures unlike their own, learning new languages and how to get about day to day among people,
• Notícias da América (News from America)
Notícias de América is a long-duration performance by Paulo Nazareth, who walked from Minas Gerais, Brazil, to the United States, documenting encounters, landscapes, and social realities while examining borders, migration, and North–South relations.
Walking pieces
Tour de fence
Tour de Fence explores overcoming physical barriers, from wire netting to high-security systems, offering practical knowledge for unimpeded movement. It critiques fences as metaphors for private property, inclusion/exclusion, and control, highlighting the shift toward total control over public and private spaces.
Walk the Line
Lauren Brincat's Walk the Line explores borders, territory, and disappearance through walking. Filmed at Cape Leeuwin, Australia, the video contrasts geological formations, dunes, and ocean, invoking both physical and metaphorical boundaries in a haunting, solitary performance.
UK Border Walk
UK Border Walk (2011) is a performative 77km walk along the Scottish–English border by Rocca Gutteridge and Claudia Zeiske, responding to the UK’s Tier 5 visa. Through walking and public debate, it highlighted how migration policy restricts artistic exchange and mobility.
Articles on WLC
Articles elsewhere
Ken Johnston, Our Walk to Freedom
” Walk to Freedom came about in late 2017 after I discovered the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee was planning remembrance ceremonies in April 2018 to mark the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination. I recognized the importance of this moment and I thought about how could I contribute to […]
Walk with the artist 2014 – Bergamo
Walk with the artist is a program of authors’ itineraries that combines the idea of tour, walk, open air workshop, and urban intervention. The first (past) two editions of the project involved the city of Berlin and 9 international artists. The Cultural Association 22:37 continues the curatorship of the Walks by turning them into an […]
Events
Water connections Prespa
We invite you to explore Prespa, a national park and lake at the border of Greece, Albania and North Macedonia, and a venue of art practice for almost two decades. Art and science, biology and ecology meet in an evening with two panels about Prespa, water and arts, in a dialogue with artists, researchers, scientists and ecologists, a confluence of the Prespa lake with Oika in the US, the El Hondo Wetland in Spain, the wet meadows of Somerset Levels and the waters of Yarun (Bribie Island) in Australia.
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