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Sound walk
Sound walk SWS25 2025

Where I End & You Begin

A surprising work of immersive theater that time-synchronizes two participants as they travel across MASS MoCA’s expansive galleries and campus. Show-issued equipment tether you wirelessly to one another in this 85-minute, deeply-connective piece.

Sound walk
Sound walk SWS26 2024

Lisan: Tongue

An interactive theatrical experience of walking with a twelve-year-old girl as your daughter along the Dubai creek, leading you through contrasting natural and urban landscapes – bringing to light the many lives of the creek and the stories of its human and more-than-human inhabitants.

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Walking the Unspoken

University of Minho / Lab2PT
2025-04-08 13:30
Av. Dom Afonso Henriques 250, Guimaraes, Portugal

This gamified sensory walk fosters embodied dialogue with others and the landscape, exploring trauma-informed design, somatic movement, and socially engaged walking art. Through subtle constraints, participants experience challenges faced by neurodivergent individuals, prompting adaptation and reflection. Checkpoints encourage movement-based prompts, conversation, and reimagining walking as a political, inclusive practice.

The Walking Body 6
WALC
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At 100 on the Snail Trail – Strollology takes to the Streets in Davos in 2025

lerjentours. Agency for Walking Culture / Christian Ratti / Forum Bau und Kultur, Davos
2025-09-20 10:00
My Post Service 7270 Davos Platz Bahnhof RhB, Talstrasse, Davos, Switzerland

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.

Lines Lost: Huntly – Portsoy

Stuart McAdam
Walking piece
Walking piece SWS26 2025

Beaches of Bonneveine

This soundscape is more than a collection of sounds, it is a woven fabric of connection.

Walking piece
Walking piece 2014

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.

Walking piece
Walking piece 1967

Walking Sculpture [Scultura da passeggio]

A giant ball made of newspaper, part of his "Minus Object" series, is rolled along the streets of Turin, between three galleries.

Walking piece
Walking piece Marŝarto25 2025

in loving memory

Memory is a profound aspect of human existence. It shapes our identity, influences our decisions, and anchors us to our past. The interplay between remembering and forgetting is crucial in navigating our lives, as each serves a distinct and essential purpose.

Walking piece
Walking piece 2006

“88 visual prayers for Henro” Japanese buddhist pilgrimage

Acts of art and prayers of a pilgrim

Sound walk
Sound walk SWS25 2025

Normalised Interfacing

Normalised Interfacing is a wheelchair soundwalk, mapping the experiences and thoughts of a wheelchair user in a new city.

Walking piece
Walking piece 1962

Map Piece

"Map Piece" is an iconic conceptual artwork created by Yoko Ono in 1962. This piece is part of her "Instruction Paintings" series, where the instructions themselves become the art, inviting participation and contemplation from the audience.

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Walking pieces

Walking piece
Walking piece Marŝarto24 2024

Walking towards the Light. A Solstice Walk, Summer 24

7 artists respond to a creative provocation by curator Kel Portman.

Walking piece
Walking piece Marŝarto24 2024

14 Encounters while walking to determine a Sense of Place

A short series of encounters and responses made in the Spoonbed Valley in rural Gloucestershire

Sound walk
Sound walk SWS24 2024

The Chalk Path/Le Chemin de Craie

The Chalk Path/Le Chemin de Craie is a bilingual self-guided audio walk through Folkestone Warren and Cap Blanc Nez that invites you to walk down through deep time, to reflect on the past and reimagine the future, considering the enormity of time and it’s relationship to our own human existence and impact.

Walking piece
Walking piece 2001

Where we come from

Palestinian artist Emily Jacir used her American passport to fulfill requests from Palestinians who could not travel freely due to Israeli restrictions.

Articles elsewhere

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Elspeth Penfold 2020-09-29 14:28:00

A Digital Quipu through Mapping A Different LENS with cgeomap.eu A Different LENS was produced through Thread and Word  for the Margate Bookie with support from Arts Council England and Margate NOW 2020.I started a very fluid artist...

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Elspeth Penfold 2019-05-25 15:19:00

'Contemporary Art and Ritual'An  Exhibition in The Crypt Gallery St PancrasMay 16th - May 21st 2019Photo courtesy Rikard OsterlundWith thanks to Caro WilliamsDeborah Burnstone for curating this exhibitionExhibiting artists, a pleasure to work with...

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Elspeth Penfold 2019-05-06 05:11:00

'Listening' sketchbook drawing 'A Walk'  sketchbook drawing."Are You Listening? "A circular walk that will offer the opportunity for us to consider our relationship with the environment, through small site specific interventions, poetry readi...

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Elspeth Penfold 2018-10-23 15:47:00

Thread and Word - A Walk with Shrines At The Margate Bookie                               Film maker Anna Bowman takes some time out from a busy filming schedule in Yo...

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Events

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Prespa 2025 – Walks and Stories

2 - 3 Jul, 2025
Laimós, Greece

We set out to explore the villages of Laimos and Pyli together with local residents—seeing their neighborhoods through their eyes and following the routes they suggested.

WAC25: Walking Home / Walking in Transition
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The World Wide Wander 2025 In-Person Walkshop in Guarujá

Street Wisdom
2025-06-28 13:00
Praia do Tombo - Guarujá, State of São Paulo, Brazil

Join Babak Fakhamzadeh for an in-person Street Wisdom Walkshop happening as part of this year's big annual day of wonder and wandering, the World Wide Wander 2025.

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Renegade Guides Handbook Launch

Rabbits Road Press
2025-05-31 16:00
Rabbits Road Press, Romford Road, London, UK

How can tours enable us to notice and appreciate our built environment and more fully inhabit the spaces we live in and places we traverse? What is a renegade guide? And who decides which stories get shared?

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Criss-Crossing

University of Minho / Lab2PT
7 - 12 Apr, 2025
Av. Dom Afonso Henriques 250, 4810-225 Guimarães, Portugal

A walkshop by Jordi Lafon and Montsita Rierola, for The Walking Body, which uses walking and drawing as a way of developing the attention and experience of the community through representation by a sensitive, diverse and rich voice.

The Walking Body 6
WALC

scurrifunge

To work or walk hurriedly. from the Dictionary of Newfoundland English (University of Toronto Press, 1982).

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