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Sound walk SWS27
2026

Step by Step

An installation and performance by interdisciplinary artist Melanie Thompson and composer Helen Ottaway.

Sound walk SWS26
2025

Entstaubung

Entstaubung is a GPS soundwalk in Marl, Germany, combining industrial sound with voices aged 12–90. An archive of multigenerational memory where intimate stories uncover buried layers of shared history—filtered through sound.

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Legends in Motion: invisible city

The Artists Village and Sonia Kwek
2026-09-04 10:00
1 Canning Rise, Singapore 179868

An immersive walking experience that uses performance, movement, storytelling and installations to reactivate vanished artistic spaces and hidden cultural networks across the city.

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walkingevent  

SOUNDWALKS – 2025 International Computer Music Conference

2025 International Computer Music Conference
8 Jun, 2025 - 14 Jun, 2026
Boston Common, Tremont Street, Boston, MA, USA

CALL for SOUNDWALKS for the 2025 International Computer Music Conference in Boston from June 8-14, 2025. Deadline for proposals 2/15. https://icmc2025.sites.northeastern.edu/call-for-submissions/#soundwalks

Rachel Epp Buller talking walking

22 Feb, 2024 · Talking Walking
Rachel Epp Buller is an inter-disciplinary artist based in Kansas in the United States. She is the recipient of two Fulbright scholarships, the latest of which she went to wintry Edmonton in north west Canada to make a piece of walking art called “On…
Curated news 10 Jun, 2026

This Art Installation Changes When You Walk Through It – Tomorrow’s World Today®

Experience the uniqueness of art through teamLab’s creations that use technology to connect and engage with the audience. Source: This Art Installation Changes When You Walk Through It – Tomorrow’s World Today®

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Call for soundwalks at ICMC

The 2025 International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) is one of the discipline’s largest and most prestigious gatherings of sound artists, composers, media artists, and scholars. This year ICMC will be held in Boston from June 8-14, 2025.

video SWS20 2020  

A leap into the sonic future

These days it is possible to locate any form of media pretty much anywhere on the planet which has a GPS signal. The whole world is up for grabs as a readymade stage set. Changing the soundtrack to the ‘movie of our lives’ changes everything.

Curated news 25 Aug, 2025

Richard Long Installation at the Speed Art Museum in Louisville

Source: Richard Long Installation at the Speed Art Museum in Louisville

Walking piece
2007

Most Serene Republics

Most Serene Republics (2007) is Edgar Heap of Birds’s Venice Biennale public art project memorializing Sioux warriors and children who died in Europe, using text-based signage to confront colonial histories and Indigenous displacement.

Walking piece
1992

Missa

MISSA presents 100 pairs of army boots suspended within a sparse grid. The work creates an unsettling silence, inviting viewers to reflect on war’s invisible consequences, the tension between absence and presence, and the quiet mechanisms of obedience and loss.

Walking piece
2006

Walking to Save Some Sea – My 46000 Challenge

Walking to Save Some Sea documents Fran Crowe’s year-long response to ocean plastic pollution. Between 2006–07 she walked 200km of coastline, collecting 46,000 pieces of litter - one square mile’s worth—turning personal action into a call for collective responsibility.

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Walking pieces

Walking piece
1962

Dylaby

Dylaby was an exhibition that transformed the Stedelijk Museum into a playful labyrinth, prioritizing participation, bodily engagement, and co-creation over traditional art objects, foreshadowing experiential art of the 1960s.

Walking piece
1955

Please, walk on here (Kono-ue wo Aruite Kudasai)

In 1955, Shimamoto’s Please Walk on Here used stable and unstable boards to make participants physically experience risk and instability. Recreated for the 1993 Venice Biennale, it highlighted bodily engagement and precarious perception.

Walking piece
1978

Chain Link Maze

Chain Link Maze (Amherst) by Richard Fleischner is an 8-ft chain-link labyrinth that blends physical, visual, and spatial experiences. Visitors navigate open corridors, see through layers of mesh, and engage with light, landscape, and choice in a contemplative, immersive maze.

Walking piece
1956

Ashiato (Footprints)

Footprints by Akira Kanayama is a walkable artwork of stenciled shoe prints on vinyl. Spectators walk on or alongside it, creating a “double walker” effect that links bodies, traces, and space, blending physical movement with imaginative engagement.

Articles on WLC

Curated news 13 Jan, 2022

Samuel Eisen-Meyer’s Art Installation “Walking the World With This Fire” Is an Explosive Portrait of American Imperialism

Source: Samuel Eisen-Meyer’s Art Installation “Walking the World With This Fire” Is an Explosive Portrait of American Imperialism

Curated news 09 Jul, 2021

Public art project draws attention to growing number of pedestrian deaths | localmemphis.com

The Heights CDC commissioned artist Colin Kidder to create an art installation honoring Memphians killed walking in 2020. Source: Public art project draws attention to growing number of pedestrian deaths | localmemphis.com

Curated news 16 Apr, 2021

Sounds of Otley to be captured in art installation | Wharfedale Observer

THE SOOTHING sounds of local wildlife will guide listeners around a sonic nature trail in Otley. Source: Sounds of Otley to be captured in art installation | Wharfedale Observer

Curated news 19 Aug, 2020

Walking in the footsteps of refugees as Ellesmere art installation unveiled | Shropshire Star

Visitors to a north Shropshire beauty spot are being encouraged to walk in the footsteps of refugees following the completion of a winding labyrinth at The Mere in Ellesmere. Source: Walking in the footsteps of refugees as Ellesmere art installation unveiled | Shropshire Star

Articles elsewhere

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L’immersion sonore via des œuvres de Max Neuhaus

À l’heure où l’on parle beaucoup d’art immersif, d’œuvres immersives, de dispositifs immersifs, à l’endroit où la création sonore et musicale tend à plonger l’auditeur au cœur de l’œuvre, des sons, des ambiances, je voudrais revenir sur le travail d’un artiste précurseur, qui m’a beaucoup inspiré et m’inspire encore. Il s’agit de Max Neuhaus. À […]

Gilles Malatray
POINTS D'OUÏE, PAYSAGES SONORES PARTAGÉS
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La marche écoutante, une pratique artistique et sociale à portée d’oreille

Marche, écouter, se poser, écouter de nouveau, traverser des espaces où les paysages sont (aussi) sonores, être traversé par les sons des lieux, autant de façons de se tenir éveillé aux bruits du monde. Point besoin pour cela de dispositifs complexes, d’appareillages sophistiqués, de prothèses acoustiques. On vise ici plutôt une approche « naturelle », sobre, où […]

Gilles Malatray
POINTS D'OUÏE, PAYSAGES SONORES PARTAGÉS
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Let’s Take a Walk #64 LTAW to The Voting Booth

Dear Friends,Let's Take a Walk #64 took place in the East Village, my neighborhood,  as we made our way to the Voting Booth. We met in person in Tompkins Sq Park and via Instagram Live @letstakeawalk_world. To see the reco...

Marie Christine Katz
Let's take a walk
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Ten years walking and asking questions

For the past 10 years I have been hosting walks creatively exploring hidden, obscured and often uncomfortable histories, legacies of slave-ownership and colonialism. In July our book: Breaking the Dead Silence: Engaging with the Legacies of Empire and Slave-Ownership in Bath and Bristol’s Memoryscapes was published by Liverpool University Press. Here I set out some background to the book, and my approach to walking arts through a sketch of a recent Heritage Open Days walk at Bath Spa Unive [...]

Richard White
Richard White: walking/media/heritage - Blog

Events

Happened
walkingevent SWS23  

Lachrymae at Inside Out Dorset

Inside Out Dorset
15 - 24 Sep, 2023
Moors Valley Country Park and Forest, Horton Road, Ashley Heath, Ringwood, UK

As you make your way through the woodland. yu'll hear music floating in the air and glimpse amber tears through the trees. Lachrymae is inspired by Ted Hughes' adaptation of Ovid's Metamorphoses.

Happened
walkingevent SWS22  

Lachrymae

Somerset Art Weeks 2022 - Sanctuary
24 - 26 Sep, 2022
Fyne Court, Bridgwater, UK

Artmusic’s Lachrymae – music and sculpture – discovered by walking in the woods at National Trust Fyne Court. Part of Somerset Art Weeks 2022 – SAanctuary. In association with The Arborealists exhibition, Regeneration and Transformation.

Happened
walkingevent SWS20  

A leap into the sonic future: Taking stock of the possibilities of locative audio for drama – and drama for locative audio

2020-09-08 18:00
Online

These days it is possible to locate any form of media pretty much anywhere on the planet which has a GPS signal. The whole world is up for grabs as a readymade stage set. Changing the soundtrack to the ‘movie of our lives’ changes everything.

Links

Walking – Vanessa Grasse

The website "https://vanessagrasse.wordpress.com" serves as an online portfolio and blog for Vanessa Grasse, an artist and cultural geographer. The site features a comprehensive overview of her artistic projects, which often explore themes related to place, memory, and identity through various mediums including drawing, printmaking, and installation. It also provides detailed accounts of her research interests in cultural geography, emphasizing the relationship between landscape and human experience. Additionally, the site includes sections dedicated to recent exhibitions, academic publications, and collaborative projects. Visitors can find visual examples of Grasse’s work alongside descriptions that contextualize her practice within broader cultural and geographic frameworks. The blog component offers insights into ongoing research and reflections on art and geography, making the site a resource for those interested in walking art and the spatial dimensions of cultural expression.
Personal websites

Viv Corringham• Viv Corringham

VIV CORRINGHAM (voice, electronics, field recordings) is a US based British vocalist and sound artist, who has been described as “a vital force in improvised music since the late 1970s” (Corey Mwamba, BBC Radio 3) and “a vocalist of stunning virtuosity” (Louise Gray, The Wire). She makes concerts, soundwalks, workshops and installations. Her practice explores relations between voice, place and walking, responding with sung improvisations to both natural and urban soundscapes. Corringham has received international recognition and awards including two McKnight Composer Fellowships through the American Composers Forum. She is a certified facilitator of Deep Listening, having played and studied with composer Pauline Oliveros. In 2024 this practice took her to Mexico, Spain, Germany and the Listening Academy in Hong Kong. Notable live performances have occurred in festivals at Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Fonoteca Nacional de Mexico, Issue Project Room New York and Tempo Reale Florence. Her recent album “Soundwalkscapes” (Vol. 1: January to June) on Flaming Pines label (Bandcamp’s Best Field Recordings 2024) has been well received. The Wire wrote that “Corringham voices the depth of place.” Her definitive contribution to sound art practice is the 20 year ongoing “Shadow-walks”, which create layers of time and space, combining recordings from shared and solo walks along the same path with her improvised sung response. They have occurred in 18 countries, are taught in many sound art classes and have been the focus of articles in books and publications.
Personal websites

Cecilia Quiles UNION Galería

Galeria Unión is a contemporary art gallery located in Mexico City, specializing in the exhibition and promotion of Latin American contemporary art. The gallery focuses on showcasing works by emerging and mid-career artists, representing a diverse range of media including painting, sculpture, photography, and installation art. Its collection emphasizes both historical and experimental practices, fostering dialogue between established artistic traditions and innovative contemporary expressions within the Latin American art scene. The gallery actively participates in art fairs and collaborates with private and public institutions to expand the visibility of its artists internationally. It also organizes solo and group exhibitions that explore thematic and conceptual concerns relevant to cultural and social issues in the region. Through these efforts, Galeria Unión serves as a significant platform for understanding the evolving dynamics of contemporary art in Latin America.
Organisations

slare

To saunter, to be slovenly (The Dialect of Cumberland – Robert Ferguson, 1873). Rarely used in Cumbria now but has a meaning of to walk slowly, to amble, to walk with no particular purpose. Used for example in the ballad Billy Watson’s Lonnin written by Alexander Craig Gibson of Harrington, Cumbria in 1872 “Yan likes to trail ow’r t’ Sealand-fields an’ watch for t’ commin’ tide, Or slare whoar t’Green hes t’ Ropery an’ t’ Shore of ayder side “(Translation: One likes to trail over to Sealand Fields and watch for the coming tide, Or slare over to where the Green has the ropery and the Shore on the other side) Billy Watson’s Lonning (lonning – dialect for lane) still exists and can be found at Harrington, Cumbria.

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