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Featured 13 Apr, 2026

Grand Tour 2026: Twelve Years Walking

Around 2011, the Nau Côclea Contemporary Art Centre entered a moment of crisis, and so did I. It was not only a question of funding. I was also concerned with questions of format and with the relationship between audiences, artists and artworks, a relationship too often reduced to mere consumption. At the centre, people moved

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Confluence 2 hosted by Nau Côclea

Nau Côclea
2024-05-29 17:30
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Do you like to travel on foot? Grand Tour is a 250km walk with poets, dancers, storytellers, visual artists and musicians. 21 days across beautiful landscape and hidden places in Catalonia, it is a shared celebration and this year, you can be part of it.

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Sound walk
SWS19 2019

Grand Tour Slow Train soundwalk

Grand Tour is a 250 km, three-week walk by multidisciplinary artists from the Ebro River Delta to Lleida, taking place from August 14 to September 1, 2019. The project concludes with participants boarding Catalonia's slowest train from Lleida to Barcelona, where they will create a moving sound map through recordings, walking choreography, and collaborative activities.

2024  

WALC Confluence 4 hosted by Nau Côclea – featuring the Grand Tour, the year we entered Barcelona

The impact of the Grand Tour 2024 goes far beyond what its participants bring or create on the way, as it inspires and is inspired by local communities and the landscape through which it passes. Grand Tour is an experience of walking, of living together and of contact with local people, in which Art has

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Curated news 21 Feb, 2020

Grand Tour – An art walk of 200 km in Catalonia

      There are several stages during the art walk. In each one an artist or group of artists will share something with the visitors: music, dance, visual arts, poetry… Every day people walk about 15 to 25 kilometers along with an artist or a group of artists who have prepared something for them.

04 Apr, 2023

“We walk, then we are” – Grand Tour

In this text I reflect on certain characteristics of walking in a group, as a result of my research in the Grand Tour project. I develop concepts such as compass, time for nothing or ephemeral and nomadic community. Source: “We walk, then we are” – Grand Tour

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Walking a Grand Tour 85

Day 16. Growing mountains. Manresa.

 So many stories that still have to be told. It has been a beautiful walk but days have been so full and as always there is too little time to do everything I would like to do. It is a difficult choice always, to use the time to write down past ex...

Monique Besten

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Walking a Grand Tour

An 18 day virtual solo walk from Queralbs to the Montserrat mountains (Spain), to be repeated in August/September in the company of many people. Commissioned by Nau Côclea. The same route twice, in two different ways, two different stories (or not?).
Monique Besten
Projects

Grand Tour

Grand Tour is a three week walk of about 300 kilometers. The participants walk together with artists of all disciplines.
Clara Gari
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fit-stramp

A footstep: I widna geng a fitstramp owre da door efter her.

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