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Walking piece
Walking piece 2004

One Block Radius

Glowlab’s One Block Radius (2004) documented a Lower East Side block slated for the New Museum through walking tours, blogs, video, and interviews, creating a layered portrait of the area with perspectives from residents, workers, performers, and historians.

Walking piece
Walking piece 1976

Relation in Space

In Relation in Space, Abramović and Ulay, both naked, walk toward each other, collide, and fall, repeating the movement until exhausted. The piece explores their romantic and artistic relationship, gender dynamics, and the concept of ‘That Self.’

video 1969  

Rape

Rape (1969) by Yoko Ono and John Lennon is a 77-minute conceptual film exploring voyeurism, privacy, and the male gaze. Shot with a hand-held camera, it follows a woman through the streets of London, symbolizing the violation and helplessness tied to celebrity surveillance.

video 2025  

Equinox | September 2025

An international group of artists including painters, photographers, musicians, videographers, sound artists, dancers and writers who all use walking as a catalyst, come together to respond to the Equinox

post Featured Marŝarto23 09 Jan, 2024

On the inside, looking out

Babak Fakhamzadeh's installation piece, "In which I go for a walk," is displayed inside a shipping container. The immersive work features looped videos of the artist walking from Brazil to northern Sweden, encapsulating a sense of voyeurism and public space awareness. It also aims to entertain, offering a multi-layered experience for viewers.

Walking piece
Walking piece 1997

Paradox of Praxis 1 (Sometimes Making Something Leads to Nothing)

Video documentation of Francys Alÿs performance, where he is shown pushing a block of ice for nice hours along the strees of Mexico City.

video 2023  

Walking the Line

A walkshop held in 2023 at the WAC International Encounters Conference at Prespa, Greece. Organised and supported by the University of Western Macedonia.

Walking Visions / Walking arts Encounters
Walking piece
Walking piece 2020

Small Small World

Small Small World is an annual project featuring a week-long hiking trip with only essential items, emphasizing dressing authentically. The exhibition presents a video series of living postcards created during these journeys.

Walking as a Question
Sound walk
Sound walk 2021

Baú de Memórias Inventadas

The premise of the installation is that the audience opens the box and chooses which fragment they will collect first.

video 2004  

Being Caribou

Husband and wife team Karsten Heuer (wildlife biologist) and Leanne Allison (environmentalist) follow a herd of 120,000 caribou on foot across 1500 km of Arctic tundra.

Sound walk
Sound walk SWS20 2020

Walk This Weekend

In early April 2020, over 30 participants worldwide took individual walks to collectively document outdoor sounds, images, and words during the Covid-19 lockdown. Tamsin Grainger compiled these recordings into a video titled "Bring the Outside Inside," accompanied by walk guidelines and related writings available online.

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The Tour of All T... 60

The Golden Tour of Nantougucheng Shenzhen – video

The full-length video is now here of a tour that very nearly didn't happen. This one was destined to be stopped like the tour of Shanghai but I somehow managed to make it through with a rough video before getting stopped by the guards. They messed up t...

Bill Aitchison
Tracey M Benson |... 85

Passage: Walking in my Father’s shoes

Passage is an emerging body of work which is exploring the process of grieving and loss after my father passed away in June 2023. It explores a range of media including images of bereavement flowers, cyanotypes from the flowers and walking documentation from Pumicestone Passage, a place of many happy family memories.

Tracey Benson
Ellen Mueller 60

Interview with Franko B

As part of the release of my book, Walking as Artistic Practice (pre-orders now open for softcover shipping in April!), I’m going to be publishing some brief interviews with the various artists, authors, researchers, creatives, collectives, and platforms whose art practice, written material, or other works I cite and mention. My 24th interview in this […]

Ellen Mueller
Ellen Mueller 85

Interview with Meghan Moe Beitiks

As part of the run up to the hardcover release of my book, Walking as Artistic Practice (softcover comes out in April!), I’m going to be publishing some brief interviews with the various artists, authors, researchers, creatives, collectives, and platforms whose art practice, written material, or other works I cite and mention. My second interview […]

Ellen Mueller

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www.janice-jensen.de

Janice Jensen (*1994) is a visual artist from Germany. She is mostly engaged with drawing and painting but also works with media such as video and painting in virtual reality. Among other things, Janice considers herself a walking artist and combines walking and drawing using her self-designed drawing machine to document landscapes. Janice graduated from Bielefeld university of applied Arts in digital, media and experiment in 2022 and also studied painting at Vilnius Academy of Arts in 2021. In 2019 she was one of the founding members of the feminist Naturtrüb collective and Magazine, which brings together female artists and researcher to release their work in a Magazine dedicated to different topics. Janice Jensen has also been participating in several artist residency programs in Sweden, Spain, Lithuania and Cyprus and exhibited her work in various places throughout Germany including Hamburg and Berlin.
Janice Jensen
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mar garrido

Professional website for photographic and video graphic works. Mar Garrido is from Madrid, and now she is living and working in Granada, Spain. She has a PhD in Fine Art from the University of Granada, a Graduate Course from The School of Visual Art and Parsons School of Design in New York City and a Bachelor degree of Fine Art from the University of Madrid. She worked as an idea woman in a Spanish TV Chanel, where she made headers and special promotions chain programs specifically linked to movies. Actually she is a professor at the University of Granada, School of Fine Art, where she teaches the subject “Audiovisual Projects.”
mar garrido
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Anabella Lenzu’s Website

Anabella Lenzu's website presents the work of an artist engaged in exploring the intersections of walking, urban space, and visual narrative. The site showcases her projects that often involve walking as a method of inquiry and artistic expression, highlighting how movement through urban environments can generate new forms of visual and spatial understanding. Documentation of her performances, video works, and photographic series emphasize the temporal and performative aspects of walking as an art practice. The site also features texts and reflections that contextualize Lenzu's work within contemporary walking art and cultural geography, providing insight into her theoretical approach. Through various media, the site traces how her explorations articulate a dialogue between the body, cityscape, and narrative structures, positioning walking not only as a physical act but as a dynamic mode of artistic research and urban experience.
Anabella Lenzu
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data ambulation

The process related to the practical collection of material, acting as post-walk data resource.

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