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Yumari! The Festival of Hospitality as a Ritual of Renewal
This article is available in French and Spanish. On May 30, Gigacircus presented the Festival of Hospitality in Villefagnan, bringing to a meaningful close the French hosting phase of the WALC project, Walking Arts & Local Communities. Before the dinner concert held in the village community hall, more than eighty residents took part in an
• ¡Yumari! La Fiesta de la Hospitalidad como un Ritual de Renovación
This article is available in French and English. On El 30 de mayo, Gigacircus presentó en Villefagnan la «Fiesta de la Hospitalidad», poniendo un cierre significativo a la acogida en Francia del proyecto WALC, Walking Arts & Local Communities.Antes de la cena-concierto celebrada en la Sala Municipal, más de ochenta habitantes participaron en la caminata
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Alien Staff
Alien Staff (1992–93) by Krzysztof Wodiczko is an electronic staff with a monitor, speaker, and display of personal documents, carried like a biblical shepherd’s staff or a 17th-century bourgeois walking stick. It allows immigrants to share their stories publicly, fostering dialogue, empathy, and challenging cultural prejudices.
Incoming and Outgoing
This is one of a series of four walking workshops. Please book for free through Eventbrite via the attached link. Join artist and newsprint enthusiast Eloise Hawser for a series of four different workshops with guided walks in London’s Docklands, looking at the area’s rich variety of stories, people and places through the lens of
The Long Walk
The Yellow Immigration Sign was a U.S. highway safety sign warning motorists to avoid illegal immigrants darting across the road. It depicted a man, woman, and girl with pigtails running. The signs were erected in response to over one hundred immigrant pedestrian deaths due to traffic collisions from 1987 to 1990. Immigrant smugglers adopted the
Yumari! La Fête de l’Hospitalité comme un rituel propitiatoire
This article is available in English and Spanish. Le 30 mai, Gigacircus a présenté à Villefagnan la « Fête de l’Hospitalité » pour clore de façon significative l’accueil en France du projet WALC, Walking Arts & Local Communities. Avant le dîner-concert qui se déroulait à la Salle des Fêtes communale, plus de 80 habitants ont
• Working the Line
David Taylor's project documents the U.S.-Mexico border's 276 boundary obelisks, capturing encounters with migrants, Border Patrol, and local residents. His photographs reveal a complex, ideologically charged borderland landscape under constant surveillance.
What Moves Between Free and Forced?
Online presentation and streaming of the project: One hour, including Q&A via Zoom. Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/6802700632?pwd=QkI2QzRDSnd0dk5nekRrUVFpRnp4QT09 Meeting ID: 680 270 0632 Passcode: walking On Monday July 5, Regin Igloria and Jenny Polak will transmit a livestream from Regin as he approaches the Broadview deportation processing center outside Chicago, IL. For ‘What Moves Between Us?’ artists
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Bani Abidi, Security Barriers A-Z (2009-19)
Bani Abidi, (1971-) in Karachi (PK), lives and works in Karachi and Delhi (IN) “26 Inkjet Prints, 29.7 x 42.0cm A design typology of security barriers found on the streets of Karachi (2009 – 2019). These barriers, which started making an entry into Karachi’s streets soon after the attack on the Twin Towers in NY […]
Brett Stalbaum and others, Walking Tools (2009-10)
” By Patrick Dow “Walking Tools is a project undertaken by Angela Black, Nichol Bernardo, Micha Cardenas, Cicero Silva, Steve Durie, Chris Head, Atom Leonhart, Todd Margolis, Jason Najarro, Chloe Sanossian, and lead by Brett Stalbaum, academics from the University of California San Deigo (UCSD) in which they used a loose confederation of software and […]
121. Bruno Latour, Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime
I first heard about philosopher of science Bruno Latour at the Walking’s New Movements conference in Plymouth, England, where I gave a paper at the beginning of November. I thought I might read his book Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime eventually, but a friend raves about this book and tells me […]
British Summer Time: Sunrise Walk (20 October 2019)
British Summer Time: Sunrise Walk 1 (20 October 2019) 7:21am 7:36am 7:51am I woke up yesterday morning and noticed the darkness. 630am and I could still see stars. I realised that until the clock changed I would be up before sunrise. I decided...
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