Created for dOCUMENTA (13) in Kassel, the Alter Bahnhof Video Walk by Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller guides viewers through a train station via iPod, blending filmed past and present into an uncanny “physical cinema” about memory and presence.

Filmed near sacred Kyoung Ju, Sewing into walking shows Kimsooja wandering and sewing fabrics into a quiet ritual. Walking becomes stitching, exploring memory, migration, and the body as a living bundle.

Songdelay is a black-and-white film performance on the New York waterfront, structured through walking and props. Delays between action and sound, shaped by distance and lenses, reveal space, rhythm, and collective movement.

Kimsooja's A Needle Woman (1999) contrasts her stillness against the fast-moving crowds in public spaces, symbolizing the migrant woman's silent endurance. The performance explores themes of displacement, labor, and the emotional toll of migration.

An industrial handcart with VCRs, lights, a clock, and TV monitors depicts walking as a ritualized, gear-laden activity, showing urban commuters wheeling carts, carrying suitcases, and hauling briefcases amid the city’s daily hustle.

Museum Highlights: A Gallery Talk is a video where Andrea Fraser, in the role of fictional docent Jane Castleton, leads a satirical tour of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The performance critiques museum values, taste, and class, drawing attention to institutional ideologies and assumptions.

In Touch, Janine Antoni walks a tightrope on the beach of her childhood home, creating the illusion of walking on water. The work explores balance, perfection, and connection with viewers, inviting reflection on hope, the horizon, and human striving.

High Wire by Catherine Yass explores architecture and urban utopias through a four-screen video and lightboxes, set at Glasgow’s Red Road towers. The work reflects social, political, and human tensions, blending dreamlike performance with the stark urban landscape.

Nauman silently walks the taped perimeter of a square, exaggerating his hip movements with each careful step. A small tilted mirror on the studio wall occasionally reflects his actions, revealing moments that would otherwise remain hidden.

Walk in Contrapposto shows Nauman walking up and down a narrow corridor in a classic contrapposto pose, filmed from behind with his head mostly out of frame, emphasizing body movement and spatial tension within the confined space.

Session is a video triptych filmed in Sharjah where natural elements play regional percussion instruments. It explores socio-spatial textures and cultural identity, inviting viewers to navigate their environment as voyagers and cartographers.

Walk to Work by Bill Gilbert is part of the Physiocartographies series. He walked 50 miles from home to work, recording his journey with GPS, images, and sound, transforming the physical act of walking into maps, videos, and installations that capture the landscape.