Search
My feed
Featured selection

Highlights

A curated starting point from this collection.
video 2026  

Sociology of Art – Walking as a daily practice (WALC online course session 3)

Third session of the block Foundations of Walking Arts as part of the online course "Walking Arts and Local Communities" in the frame of the Creative Europe Cooperation project WALC.

WALC Course
WALC
Walking piece
Walking piece 1991

The Collector

A magnetized metal collector taking a daily walk.

Walking piece
Walking piece 2004

Guards

Guards (2004) is a video installation with sound documenting a performance orchestrated by the Belgian-born artist Francis Alÿs. It is one part of the “Seven Walks” series commissioned by Artangel.

post Featured Marŝarto23 04 Jan, 2024

Walk and listen

Rachel Epp Buller's "One Hundred Days of Walking" reflects a daily practice, implemented in Alberta, Canada. As an artist trained in Deep Listening, Buller uses walking as a form of attentive exploration.

post Curated news 05 Mar, 2022

Meta-analysis of 15 Studies Reports New Findings on How Many Daily Walking Steps Needed for Longevity Benefit | UMass Amherst

A meta-analysis of 15 studies involving nearly 50,000 people from four continents offers new insights into identifying the amount of daily walking steps that will optimally improve adults’ health and longevity. Source: Meta-analysis of 15 Studies Reports New Findings on How Many Daily Walking Steps Needed for Longevity Benefit | UMass Amherst

Walking piece
Walking piece 2020

Short trips, Walking under constraint

During the spring lockdown in France, the artist conducted daily walks limited to one hour within a 1 km radius, creating routes based on drawings like flowers and snails. This process resulted in an archive of 64 drawings, two reflective texts, and a series of engravings exploring the neighborhood and urban changes under strict outing restrictions.

Walking as a Question
Sound walk
Sound walk SWS21 2021

Berlin-Kreuzberg – Through The Ears of An Almost Stranger

Drummer and writer Susanne Lambert relocated to Berlin during the Corona lockdown and adapted to limited social interaction by exploring the city through daily walks. She reads and interprets her new environment uniquely, despite minimal direct feedback on local meanings.

post Curated news 18 Jan, 2021

The joy of steps: 20 ways to give purpose to your daily walk | Life and style | The Guardian

Has the novelty of a prescribed stroll long since worn off? From tracking animals to uncovering hidden history, here’s how to discover a new world in your neighbourhood Source: The joy of steps: 20 ways to give purpose to your daily walk | Life and style | The Guardian

Does our archive help you out? Help us by supporting us, today!
Donate

Articles elsewhere

Poodle Walks 70

just snaps

When Suzanne was sick and in the Victor Harbor hospital I was walking both standard poodles (Akira and Maya) on my own. It was disciplined walking as I would walk along the coastal path in the early morning to Dep’s Beach, and then we would walk ...

Gary Sauer-Thompson
Walkspace 90

Pathways of knowing

In this poetic photo essay, Emma Plover walks with edges, inviting the reader to step into closer relationship with their everyday journeys and environments.

Walkspace
Poodle Walks 30

bushland studies #2: mono no aware

The traditional or pre-modern Japanese aesthetic category of mono no aware generally refers to impermanence of things. It is often interpreted as the ‘pathos of things’–“pathos” (aware) of “things” (mono), deriving from their tr...

Gary Sauer-Thompson
Poodle Walks 75

Kings Head revisited

We have stayed away from walking amongst the rocks on the coast this year due to the ongoing prevalence of the toxic micro algae bloom. We (Maya and I) did walk around to Kings Head when it was pretty clear of the algae bloom on a late afternoon walk. ...

Gary Sauer-Thompson

Links

url

Blato project

This project started by discovering the town of Blato, Croatia through daily walks. This website is my writing and process of the starting point for the work/walk "Walk[in] Past"
procrastanita
Projects

galefilero

A jaunt, a rambling walk or ride just for the sake of breaking restraint. from the Dictionary of Newfoundland English (University of Toronto Press, 1982).

Added by Marlene Creates
Problem?

Encountered a problem? Report it to let us know.

  • Include the page on which you encountered the problem.
  • Describe what happened.
  • Describe what you expected to happen.
Follow us