durational practice
Highlights
Feliz Aniversário (Happy Birthday)
Feliz Aniversário is a performance in which the artist visited every Rio street named after a calendar date on its corresponding day, mapping the journeys and photographing each visit to create a yearlong record of time and urban space.
Effugio c, you’re always only half a day away
The artist circles his Finnish home for 12 hours, running 65 miles. The repetitive loop is filmed in HD and exhibited as a 12-hour performance, turning endurance into futility and contrasting modern travel’s reach within half a day.
Walking 9-5 Series
Danica Phelps’ Walking 9–5 turns the eight-hour workday into a walking measure. She walks eight hours daily, documenting routes and daily expenses through drawings. Each work records money spent/earned, and sold pieces are replaced by traced copies with sale details.
Roman Runner: Limes Germanicus I
In Roman Runner: Limes Germanicus I, Dr. Tim Brennan traced the Dutch edge of the Roman Empire on foot, running 90 miles from the North Sea to the German border in a 19-hour endurance performance that carried him across windswept coasts, historic towns, and river valleys, advancing his long-term art project.
One Year Performance 1981-1982
Tehching Hsieh's performance piece (1981–1982) involved staying outdoors for one year without entering any buildings, vehicles, or shelters. The work began on September 26, 1981, at 2 P.M. and lasted until September 26, 1982, using only a sleeping bag.
Articles elsewhere
Ronaigh – on Radiophrenia this coming Sunday
Radiophrenia – https://radiophrenia.scot/listen/ – 13 April 2025 10:00 am – 11:30 am July. 40 miles off the top of the Outer Hebrides. Stand below St Ronan’s church. Walk south on lazy bed corrugations to the low cliffs. Turn east. Pass … Continue reading →
A walk on Dove Crag Island for Terminalia 2025
Dove Crag Island is created by my human-scale movement and my imagination. I walk the island once each month across the turning of the year. For Terminalia I walk an eight-mile shoreline … a boundary of an imagined island … … Continue reading →
