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Walking piece
2007

Mapa-Múndi/BR

Created by the artist during her driftings across Brazil, *Mapa-Múndi/Br* is a series of photographs of Brazilian signs that reference foreign continents, countries, regions, and cities.

Walking piece
1970

4 dias 4 noites (4 days 4 nights)

Artur Barrio’s 4 dias 4 noites (1970) was a four-day, four-night solitary dérive through Rio de Janeiro, leaving no records—only memory itself, a hallucinatory archive that later informed and inspired his subsequent works.

video 2026  

WALC Course Cafe – Topogestures: Reflections on walking, performance, poetry and technology

This presentation by Bill Psarras reflects on the concept of topogesture which is a methodological distillation emerging from the author’s artistic practice over the last decade, within the remedial convergences of walking performance, poetry, and technology. Etymologically viewed, such a neologism is created as an oscillation between place (topos) and gesture (cheironomia), aiming to underscore how the artistic act invests meaning into and

WALC Course
WALC
Happened
walkingevent SWS21  

Distance Drift: Soundshot

2021-09-19 09:00
Online

Distance Drifts are remote walks designed to get participants walking alone together in creative and curious ways. To coincide with Sound Walk September, project curator Sonia Overall invites you to participate in a Distance Drift walking collage of found sounds. To join in live you will need a mobile device and a Twitter account. Follow

Happened
walkingevent  

A Different LENS #Distance Drift

The Margate Bookie and Margate NOW2020 delivered through CGeomap.eu
2020-10-11 09:00
Online

Our map A Different LENS is up and ready for you to explore on Saturday September 12thWe are inviting you to experience three selected stories on our map with a walk #Distancedrift.These are led by the fab author, artist, founder of #womenwhowalknet @SoniaOverall on twitter. We will release the locations of three stories to explore

Walking piece
2012

Ashes

Ashes is built through drifting rather than narrative. Apichatpong lets images wander—daily routines, village walks, fleeting gestures—colliding with political protests in Thailand, creating a film shaped by memory, observation, and quiet resistance.

Walking piece
2014

Ghost Walker

Ghost Walker: An Impossible Walk Through Mexico City's History explores a vanished street using historic maps and Google overlays. Inspired by dérive and Collective Actions techniques, the project traces 150 years of urban change, absence, and memory through a participatory artistic walk.

Walking piece
2002

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.

Sound walk
2004

Drift

Drift is a site-specific GPS-based sound installation exploring wandering, disorientation, and the limits of GPS. Visitors traverse a shifting 2 km² space of sand, sea, and interactive sounds, where footsteps, spoken word, and tides create a playful, unpredictable experience of place.

Walking piece
2020

Colour charts

The Colour Charts are created during colour walks where the artist collects pigments—gravel, dirt, dust, and bird droppings—from overlooked city places. Using watercolor, these collected traces form charts, mapping the city through experimental exploration.

Walking piece
2012

Cartas

Cartas is a work-in-progress featuring photographs of mailboxes found during walks in cities around the world.

Walking piece
2005

Drifting – voices from the hidden history of the Thames

Cultural historian Toby Butler created a float out of driftwood and flotsam, then spent weeks following the float along the river, guided by the current. Wherever the float collided with the bank, he looked for someone to interview about their life and their relationship with the Thames.

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Walking pieces

Sound walk SWS20
2020

Percursos-experiência: propostas para rever a cidade

The audio-paper discusses the 2019 performative project "Three routes and a detour towards the same end," developed during the "Dramaturgies of the Everyday" research at the University of Porto. The project consists of four guided walks through Porto’s Bonfim district, using distinct approaches to explore urban fictionality, narrative time, and subjective experience within everyday routes.

Drifting Bodies / Fluent Spaces

Articles elsewhere

post 95

First First Sunday of 2022

Hello dear loiterers I promised more details about the First First Sunday of 2022 didn’t I? The truth is apart from the starting point I don’t know where we will go or what we will discover because that is the joy and strength of the derive. We wande...

THE LRM
THE LRM
post 95

Textually Active: Beating The Bounds

Driftingspace led a walk that responded to artists’ work in the four venues displaying the Walk On exhibition in Plymouth. This was the first ambulatory event for Textually Active as we wandered parts of the city plan, playing on artistic ideas of walking arts practice. It included all, none, or some of the following: Establishing desire lines Making the bounds Pointing […]

driftingspace
driftingspace
post 85

Tour de France – Holme Moss

The Tour de France got me thinking about the idea of professional cyclists trying to get from a to b as quickly as possibly in order to be the fastest cyclist. It’s not really a ‘psychogeographical’ endeavour but there are numerous ways that it could be…both for the cyclists and the spectators… In line with […]

notanotherpsychogeographyblog
not another psychogeography blog
post 45

Sally Hall for Driftingspace: Karst Short Residency

driftingspace will be undertaking a short residency at Karst in April which will culminate in a Textually Active event at the end of the residency.  During the residency we will be generating individual enquiries and explorations of the space/site as ...

driftingspace
driftingspace

Events

Happened
walkingevent  

A Different LENS #Distance Drift

The Margate Bookie and Margate NOW2020 delivered through CGeomap.eu
2020-10-04 09:00
Online

Our map A Different LENS is up and ready for you to explore on Saturday September 12thWe are inviting you to experience three selected stories on our map with a walk #Distancedrift.These are led by the fab author, artist, founder of #womenwhowalknet @SoniaOverall on twitter. We will release the locations of three stories to explore

Happened
walkingevent SWS20  

A Different LENS #Distance Drift

The Margate Bookie and Margate NOW2020 delivered through CGeomap.eu
2020-09-27 09:00
Online

Our map A Different LENS is up and ready for you to explore on Saturday September 12thWe are inviting you to experience three selected stories on our map with a walk #Distancedrift.These are led by the fab author, artist, founder of #womenwhowalknet @SoniaOverall on twitter. We will release the locations of three stories to explore

Happened
walkingevent SWS20  

A Different LENS #Distance Drift

The Margate Bookie and Margate NOW2020 delivered through CGeomap.eu
2020-09-20 09:00
Online

Our map A Different LENS is up and ready for you to explore on Saturday September 12thWe are inviting you to experience three selected stories on our map with a walk #Distancedrift.These are led by the fab author, artist, founder of #womenwhowalknet @SoniaOverall on twitter. We will release the locations of three stories to explore

Happened
walkingevent SWS20  

A Different LENS #Distance Drift

The Margate Bookie and Margate NOW2020 delivered through CGeomap.eu
2020-09-13 09:00
Online

Our map A Different LENS is up and ready for you to explore on Saturday September 12thWe are inviting you to experience three selected stories on our map with a walk #Distancedrift.These are led by the fab author, artist, founder of #womenwhowalknet @SoniaOverall on twitter. We will release the locations of three stories to explore

Links

driftingspace

The website Drifting Space is a digital platform dedicated to exploring urban environments through the practice of psychogeography and drifting, or dérive. It presents an evolving collection of essays, reflections, and visual documentation focused on the relationships between people, space, and place. The content frequently engages with themes of walking as a mode of artistic and spatial investigation, mapping the emotional and social dimensions of everyday urban landscapes. The site highlights projects and writings that examine the impact of architecture, infrastructure, and social dynamics on mobility and perception within the city. It draws upon theories from geography, sociology, and contemporary art to deepen understanding of how urban spaces are experienced and transformed by the act of moving through them. Overall, Drifting Space functions as a resource for both practitioners and scholars interested in the intersection of walking practices and cultural geography.
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