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What the body has come to know: a collective walking experience
This article first appeared in Anima Loci. Unfolding through the city of Guimarães, Portugal, The Walking Body is an artistic research programme that explores collective walking as a methodology for situated knowledge, creative inquiry and engagement with place. Taking place across three consecutive editions (2024–2026), the programme has generated a range of artistic outputs: from drawings to
Common Ground: Embroidering the Map of Beveren
Common Ground invites participants to explore Beveren through walking, storytelling and embroidery. Together they create a collective map by stitching memories, trees and meaningful places into a shared tapestry celebrating local landscapes and ecolo
• Slow Coast 500
Slow Coast 500 was a 1,200 km walk along Scotland’s east coast exploring tourism’s impact on communities and environments. Carrying and embroidering an orange tablecloth, I invited dialogue and reflection with coastal communities, ending with a walk, talk, and workshop at Art Walk Porty 2023.
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Rachel Epp Buller talking walking
Why walk? A slow journey in a three-piece business suit.
For Walking the questions, Monique Besten went on a walk from Barcelona to Galicia, to be able to answer questions by living them. This walking piece is one of the shortlisted pieces in the Marŝarto Awards 2023. Here, Monique discusses her work. What is my territory? What is yours? What does belonging mean? What do you truly own? Where is the
GPS Embroidery
GPS Embroidery is a walking performance practice which appropriates a tool invented in the service of imperialism and puts it into the hands of artists who mother. It is an ongoing political response to the reactionary politics of our times, which aims to broaden ideas about who-gets-to-write-what-where in and about the British landscape.
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Victory
"This story is completely true since I made it up from beginning to end." - Froth on the daydream, Boris VianOf course it returned. I was there at 8.14 to see it rise magistically and very red, not out of the sea but from behind it. It only took a...
Day 7. Ways of mapping. Arp – Sant Lllorenc
The trail is copied in the scratches and bruises on my arms and legs. Nothing too crazy, not too much blood being shed, no big injuries. Just getting stuck in a blackberry bush, slipping on loose stones during a descent, taking a short cut going down a...
Day 1. What the mountains know. Queralbs – Nuria
I see the world waking up. Mountains turning from black to blue to pink. Sun touching the ridges on the left, lighting up the grey and green, turning it a bright dark yellow. Cowbells, some animals are grazing so nearby I can hear the sound of their te...