drift
Highlights
WalkSpace: Beirut-Venice
WalkSpace: Beirut-Venice is a participatory artwork connecting simultaneous dérives in Beirut and Venice. Groups in each city guide each other in real time via video, maps, and tweets, creating an evolving relational space shaped by exploration, interaction, and chance.
Obscene Elegy | Scene30 | Adrift
In this video performance, the artist ran through the Patagonian desert with eyes closed, tracing a circular path. The journey is captured both from a body-mounted camera and a panopticon camera atop a mountain, revealing embodied and surveillance perspectives.
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Sounds and bodies in space
Dávid Somlo is a Hungarian interdisciplinary artist based in Budapest working with the movement of sounds and bodies in space and using walking as a fundamental form to facilitate and choreograph various performative situations. He will introduce three of his key works where walkers carry portable speakers.
A Mis-Guide set free
The walking artist collective Wrights & Sites will mark the 20th anniversary of the launch of their most well-encountered work, A Mis-Guide To Anywhere, by releasing a free PDF copy of the full publication into the wild from Wednesday 8 April. A Mis-Guide To Anywhere, was launched at London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts in April 2006.
Harvest Moon Reflections
Women Walking, the City, at Night is an international performance in the form of collective night walks, initiated and curated by artist Eléonore Ozanne. The project began in Seville, Spain, in September 2021 during the night of the Harvest Moon. Since then, it has grown into a global action, with women walking together in different cities
Walking pieces
sloopwild
‘sloopwild’ is a site-specific walking project created for the UNFIX Festival 2021, inviting participants to meander and drift without a map along the edges of Kent. It emphasizes listening to environmental sounds and experiencing boundaries through recorded solo walks called sloops.
Drift in the studio: William Kentridge’s Transitus and Thinking
This paper examines the role of walking as a cognitive and physical process integral to William Kentridge’s artistic practice, emphasizing how movement within the studio facilitates the emergence of ideas through drawing. It analyzes the studio as a dynamic space where walking and drawing intersect, producing intermedia works that navigate the boundary between possibility and impossibility.
Articles on WLC
Articles elsewhere
January 2024 First First Sunday
Dear friends in loitering It’s First Sunday, this Sunday and so time for a wander to welcome in 2024 together. We’ll be meeting 2pm Sunday January 7th at Stevenson Square – we’ll be near the disused toilets on the traffic island near Fred Aldous. The...
June 2023 First Sunday
It’s First Sunday, this Sunday and as promised the next few wanders will be at locations requested by loiterers. A return to Media City, Salford Quays and its surrounding environment has been suggested so we will be meeting on Sunday 4th June, 2pm, out...
future wanders
Hello everyone Thanks to all who came on the Whalley Range wander on First Sunday. The conversations were so rich, listening to comments and emails I think we will probably alternate monthly between the city centre and further afield for a while so h...
Drifting Bodies / Fluent Spaces
International Meeting / Conference on walking arts. Minho University Guimaraes, Portugal, 21-25 July 2020 Main themes: drift/psychogeography, as subversive practice, as an urban game – playfulness and risk the fluid body and senses, (re)writing and (re)reading the city through the body emptiness – silence, exploring these as transformative elements of places and situations walking stories, …
Events
A Refracted View – Which Way?
A Refracted View is a project delivered through Thread and Word artists in collaboration with members from East Kent Mencap. Conference attendees can share in our creative journey through our recorded podcast and online exhibition. https://linktr.ee/ThreadandWord We are offering the opportunity for conference attendees to enter a competition to win a full Drift Deck of
Happy tourists
“Find the horizon, and follow it < Tell a secret to a tree < Bring back a special cloud” “Find the end of the Earth < Create a landmark < Bring back some hope” “Happy tourists” is the first and unique travel agency inviting tourists to “get lost”. We believe that discovery is more about
Distance Drift: future archaeology walk
Part of the Riddley Walker 40th anniversary celebrations. Walk wherever you are, indoors or out, with fellow Riddley fans. Sum Tyms Bitin Sum Tyms Bit joins forces with Festival CHAT 2020, a celebration of contemporary and historical archaeology, to explore the here and now through the lens of Riddley’s world. Follow Sonia Overall @soniaoverall and
