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Nocturnal Walkthroughs: Memories of Water

Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza and TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary
2026-10-24 19:00
P.º del Prado, 8, Centro, 28014 Madrid, Spain

An immersive audio walk and live voice performance using listening and sensory activation to explore relationships among water, embodied memory, identity and territory.

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Nocturnal Walkthroughs: Memories of Water

Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza and TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary
2026-10-24 20:00
P.º del Prado, 8, Centro, 28014 Madrid, Spain

An immersive audio walk and live voice performance using listening and sensory activation to explore relationships among water, embodied memory, identity and territory.

in loving memory

Babak Fakhamzadeh

Fading Transmissions: Glenrio Was Here (Glenrio, NM)

On the border of Texas and New Mexico, a town divided by a state line faces an identity crisis — and demands to be remembered. Wandering the empty fields and crumbling pavement of what, at one time, was a glamorous rest-stop town, Blake imagines a conversa…
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2016

Walking in NYL

Walking in NYL is a video work by Renée Green that unfolds through the artist’s ambulatory movement between two cities: New York and Lisbon.

Walking piece Marŝarto25
2025

JAI HIND

79th Independence Day Special 🇮🇳 This year, we decided to celebrate in a unique way — by walking 42 kms across Bengaluru and creating a GPS art of “JAI HIND”

post 30 Oct, 2025

Through an outsider’s lens: Arturo Soto on Oxford

Arturo Soto's photobook offers a quietly subversive view of Oxford, one that sidesteps the spires, the postcard images and instead roams the under-acknowledged corners of British academia.

Curated news 28 Oct, 2025

Hidden in Central Park, an anonymous Holocaust memorial – The Forward

A discovery of a memorial to Jewish concentration camp prisoners yields questions of identity, memory and the purpose of art. Source: Hidden in Central Park, an anonymous Holocaust memorial – The Forward

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Nocturnal Walkthroughs: Memories of Water

Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza and TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary
2026-11-21 21:00
P.º del Prado, 8, Centro, 28014 Madrid, Spain

An immersive audio walk and live voice performance using listening and sensory activation to explore relationships among water, embodied memory, identity and territory.

Happened
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Love Letters in Secret Gardens: Highland Park and East Liberty

Shiftworks Community + Public Arts; led by Carolina Loyola-Garcia
2026-09-19 14:00
Stanton Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

An artist-designed psychogeographic walk connecting love letters and secluded gardens to the social and emotional geography of East Liberty and Highland Park.

Happened
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Vienna Sonic Memories

mdw University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna; Conny Zenk
2026-09-19 16:30
Antifaschismuspl. 1, 1020 Wien, Austria

An artist-led soundwalk using movement and listening at the Prater to investigate the relationship between urban space, sound and memory.

Happened
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The Waterfront Journals

ONE DAY THIS KID
2026-09-06 14:45
Thames Barrier Park, N Woolwich Rd, London E16 2HP, UK

A site-specific promenade performance that connects David Wojnarowicz's monologues and new LGBTQIA+ testimonies with queer histories, cruising, loss, and resilience at the Thames waterfront.

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Walking pieces

Walking piece Marŝarto23 Shortlisted
2023

Crossing the Limits Prespa / Grammos / Mytilene / Thermi / Sikinos / Marousi / Athens The 138 kilometers of Limits

For over four months I walked 138 kilometers in five different sites in Greece in an effort to discover the Greek Landscape in its totality and redefine it.

Sound walk
2022

Das Private ist poetisch

More than 250 young people between the ages of 11 and 29 submitted audio contributions for the storytelling competition "The Private is Poetic" of the Anne Frank Educational Centre in Frankfurt.

Walking piece
2021

Bincks Groene Wandelroute (BGW)

The Binckhorst is an industrial area adjacent to the center of The Hague. In the upcoming years, the Binckhorst will be transformed to a high quality place to live and work. BGW gives you the chance to experience the raw identity of the Binckhorst.

Sound walk SWS21 Honourable mention
2021

Bristoler Chronik

After 20 years, the author retraced a walk from their former Bristol home to their current residence, using the journey to explore themes of class, identity, memory, and consciousness. The work emphasizes the unique mental state produced by walking and its connection to personal and collective recollection.

Articles on WLC

Curated news 27 Oct, 2022

Is Bogotá the new street art capital of South America? | National Geographic

The streets of the Colombian capital are awash with eye-catching art. But this is far more than just decoration, with designs rooted in identity and offering an all-important chance for political self-expression. Source: Is Bogotá the new street art capital of South America? | National Geographic

Curated news 19 Oct, 2022

Crafting a city through observation and memory | Mint Lounge

Meet the artists giving new meaning to the way memory, identity and history play into our perception of space Source: Crafting a city through observation and memory | Mint Lounge

Curated news 01 Sep, 2020

Walking:Holding – Event – Artsadmin

A gentle meditation on identity, touch and intimacy in urban public space. Event taking place in Riga, Latvia 4-6 September Source: Walking:Holding – Event – Artsadmin

Articles elsewhere

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Lilian – I’d rather be invisible than a threat – Identity cards and challenges … with Lilian around Maynooth

A third extract from a walk around Maynooth University with Lilian who reflects on how her identity card serves to make her oddly invisible as one of the few Black members of academic staff.

Jerry O'Neill
walking it
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Performance and Body Mapping

THE DIVISION OF CONTINUING EDUCATION, School of Visual Arts SVA PRESENTSPERFORMANCE AND BODY MAPPING WORKSHOP BY ANABELLA LENZU (ONLINE EVENT) FREEWED, FEBRUARY 10, 2021 FROM 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM EST Body Mapping is an intergenerational dialogue tool helping people of different generations to talk to each other. The experience builds trust and deepens people’s […]

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Anabella Lenzu's Blog
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29. Warren Cariou, Lake of the Prairies: A Story of Belonging

I met Warren Cariou once. I was volunteering at a conference on Indigenous performance and ended up driving him to the airport for his flight back to Winnipeg. I suppose that encounter is part of the reason I put his book Lake of the Prairies: A Story of Belonging on my reading list—that, and the […]

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Events

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WALC Confluence 1 hosted by Gigacircus with guest, Mohamed-Nour Wana

Gigacircus
2024-03-27 18:30
Online

The co-funded EU WALC project offers an opportunity for public scrutiny of the project, by running bi-monthly free "Confluence events", our first is hosted by Gigacircus with guest, Mohamed-Nour Wana.

WALC
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World Trails Network’s ‘Artists Talking Walking’ Seminar Series

World Trails Network
2024-01-19 16:00
Online

Food on the Lebanon Mountain Trail by Zeinab Jeambey Encouraging Artisans – El Camino de Costa Rica by Conchita Espino and Maria Saens

Links

Anne Cecilie Caroline Brunborg Lie www.annececilielie.com

Anne Cecilie Lie's website presents her work at the intersection of walking, art, and cultural geography. The site details her explorations of landscapes and urban environments through embodied walking practices, emphasizing the sensory and experiential dimensions of place. It features her engaging with issues such as memory, identity, and environmental perception, often blending artistic expression with academic inquiry. The site includes documentation of her projects, which combine maps, text, photography, and sound to articulate nuanced spatial narratives. It also highlights her collaborations and exhibitions, illustrating how her practice situates walking as a form of knowledge production within both art and cultural geography disciplines.
Personal websites

Walkinglandscapes

Walking Landscapes is a project dedicated to exploring the interconnectedness of walking, art, and cultural geography. It curates and presents a diverse range of walking-based artistic practices and research, emphasizing how walking as an embodied experience shapes and reflects cultural, social, and environmental landscapes. The platform features detailed case studies, artist projects, and scholarly essays that investigate walking as a method of inquiry and creative expression, highlighting its role in mapping places, histories, and personal narratives. The website also serves as a resource hub for those interested in the interdisciplinary field of walking art, showcasing walking routes, sound walks, performance walks, and other experimental approaches that utilize the act of walking to engage with different urban and rural environments. By documenting these practices, Walking Landscapes contributes to a deeper understanding of place-making and spatial relations, as well as the ways walking practices intersect with memory, identity, and ecology.
Personal websites

walking drawing reflective practice Siobhán Potter

The Tumblr site of Siobhan Potter presents a diverse collection of photographic works and visual art exploring themes of movement, identity, and cultural narrative. The images often capture dynamic urban environments and intimate portraits, reflecting the artist’s interest in how individuals interact with and are shaped by their surroundings. The visual style emphasizes texture, light, and human presence, creating a dialogue between the subject and place. Throughout the archive, Potter’s work reveals an engagement with cultural geography, using walking and observation as modes of artistic inquiry. The collection includes series that document spontaneous encounters and constructed scenes, suggesting a layered understanding of place as both physical and experiential. Overall, the site functions as a visual journal that traces the intersections of personal and collective space through photography.
Personal websites

streel

To drag along the ground, to trail or hang untidily, as in “He was streelin’ along behind us all the way home.” from the Dictionary of Newfoundland English (University of Toronto Press, 1982).

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