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Walking piece 2021

Liquid Landscape

Liquid Landscape by Roosegaarde creates a playful dialogue between people and nature. Visitors experience an unexpected fluid movement when stepping on this surreal landscape of grass.

video 2014  

WALC Course Cafe Thinking in Motion

Video recording of a talk that introduces WALKING, a symposium exploring practices of walking as modes of perception, spatial inquiry, and collective reflection. Situated in relation to Lucius Burckhardt’s Spaziergangswissenschaft, WALKING brings together positions from landscape architecture, art, research, and curatorial practice to examine how environments are read, constructed, and contested through movement. The presentation

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Walking piece
Walking piece 1979

Untitled Earthwork (Johnson Pit #30)

Robert Morris’s Untitled Earthwork (Johnson Pit #30) (1979) reshaped an abandoned gravel pit into a terraced amphitheater, reclaiming the land as public art. Today, the site also serves as a space for walking practice and outdoor movement activities.

post Curated news New 17 Jul, 2026

Résidences Land Art – neimënster

neimënster is opening its parvis (courtyard) to artistic proposals that use natural, organic, and/or ephemeral materials. From land art to ephemeral sculpture, neimënster invites visual artists… Source: Résidences Land Art – neimënster

post Featured 02 Feb, 2026

Lines in the Land as Deep-Time Geographies

Early on, I was just a kid, I was introduced to the Nazca Lines in Peru. It’s been a while, so I can’t be completely sure, but the first time I learned about the Nazca Lines might have been through the writings of Erich von Däniken, who saw in the Lines proof of lost civilisations,

Walking the Line

Richard Long
Walking piece
Walking piece 1969

Ground Mutations – Shoe Prints

Dennis Oppenheim’s Ground Mutations – Shoe Prints (1969) used grooved shoes worn for three months to leave imprints across industrial landscapes, documenting human movement and transforming ordinary footsteps into patterns that merge process, trace, and photographic art.

Walking piece
Walking piece 1971

Connemara Sculpture

Richard Long’s Connemara Sculpture (1971) was a site-specific arrangement of beach pebbles in Connemara. Made to weather naturally, it eventually disappeared, surviving now only through photographs, writings, and its lingering influence.

Walking piece
Walking piece 1969

Las Vegas Piece

Walter De Maria’s 1969 Las Vegas Piece – mile-long bulldozer lines forming a square in the desert – was hard to find even then and is now barely visible. The work’s elusiveness was central to the experience, emphasizing remoteness and chance.

Walking piece
Walking piece 1982

Vietnam Veterans Memorial

The Vietnam Veterans Memorial in D.C., designed by Maya Lin, features two black granite walls set below ground and engraved with the names of the fallen. As visitors walk through, they see the names and service dates, their reflections merging with the inscriptions in a contemplative space.

Walking piece
Walking piece 1970

Spiral Jetty

Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty (1970) is a 1,500-foot-long earthwork made from 6,000 tons of basalt rock, winding into the Great Salt Lake. The spiral form reflects salt crystal deposits and explores themes of entropy, transformation, and the passage of time in the landscape.

Walking piece
Walking piece 2007

Body Techniques (after A Line in Ireland, Richard Long, 1974)

Body Techniques is a series of 8 photographs by Carey Young exploring the body in globalized corporate spaces. Set in Dubai and Sharjah, she reworks conceptual art actions, highlighting tension between individual agency and overwhelming, hyperreal corporate landscapes.

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Walking pieces

Walking piece
Walking piece 1968

Mile Long Drawing

For Mile Long Drawing, De Maria drew two parallel chalk lines a mile long in the Mojave Desert, bringing Minimalism outdoors.

Walking piece
Walking piece 1998

Untitled

Untitled at Oliver Ranch adapts to the land's contours, with 30-inch square treads and risers varying in height from 3/8 inch to 17 inches. The design challenges balance, requiring focus on each step while offering a changing view of the landscape.

Walking piece
Walking piece 2010

Plantón Móvil

Plantón Móvil is a yearly participatory “walking forest” performance that creates new green spaces. Blending the meanings of “sapling” and “sit-in,” it imagines plants marching through the city to demand respect, inspired by Lima’s mistreated urban trees.

Walking piece
Walking piece 2018

Mantle

Mantle is a permanent earthwork monument on Capitol Square honoring Virginia’s Native nations. Inspired by Powhatan’s Mantle, it invites visitors to walk a spiraling path of river stones surrounded by Indigenous plants, symbolizing Native culture.

Articles on WLC

post Featured 31 Jan, 2026

Walking images into place: WAC encounters and the anima of Prespa

In summer 2025, for one entire week, walking became the defining activity in Prespa, a mountainous transboundary landscape where two ancient freshwater lakes traverse Greece, Albania, and North Macedonia. Through acts of healing, experiencing, resisting and becoming, WAC 25 explored walking as a multifaceted practice as part of the wider, four-year Creative Europe project “Walking

post Curated news 22 Jan, 2026

Talking with Tony Smith

The sculptor-painter-architect, Tony Smith, born in South Orange, New Jersey in 1912, is one of the best-known unknowns in American art. Most people involved in the art world around New… Source: Talking with Tony Smith

post Featured Marŝarto25 29 Dec, 2025

Of Lines, Time, and Inefficient Gaits

Carlos ‘Luca’ Idrobo produced Love Letters to Walking Art and Science, a cumulative piece that honours pivotal artistic and scientific works focused on walking as both motif and practice, combining photography, drawing, light-drawings, performance, and land art.His work is shortlisted for the Marŝarto Awards 2025. Below, he reflects on the piece. Walking a line has been standard practice

post Featured Marŝarto25 22 Dec, 2025

Walking a Meadow: Cultivating Collective Attention

Laura Reeder walked with local youth and neighbors over two underused lawns in the City of Syracuse, NY. The walks turned undervalued public fields into living drawings, exploring how walking in public space connects ecology, safety, and community.Her work is shortlisted for the Marŝarto Awards 2025. Below, she reflects on the experience. My year as resident artist with

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pedestrian - Pede... 85

Walk 96

Komorebi Walk*, South Saskatchewan RiverKomorebi is a Japanese word for the way light filters through trees. Memories of sun and shade  and a thousand gestures of green leaves, and the feel of shady woods in the summer. Here, in the middle of winter: the leaves are dead and down, the sky is overcast, and the trees are bare bones. But there is light in the snow, the river, the grey sky, and to walk while focusing attention on trees and light is a way to find beauty everywhere. * [...]

Pedestrian Blog
pedestrian - Pede... 75

Walk 55

Pavan Park, Lethbridge, AlbertaThis time around the Pavan loop offered up sunlight reflecting on water, a porcupine in a tree, beautiful land art by Troy, the call of a Northern Flicker, beaver-chewed branches, mud, riverspace, sunspace, skyspace, hillspace, trees. Awareness. Location: Pavan Park, Lethbridge, AlbertaLength: 4kmCompanions: TroyDate: 28 March, 2020 [...]

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Art Aia – Creatives In Residence

The website "artaiafvg.wordpress.com" serves as an online platform dedicated to Art-AIA FVG, an initiative centered on the intersection of art and nature within the Friuli Venezia Giulia region of Italy. It documents various projects, exhibitions, and events that explore site-specific and environmental art practices, highlighting collaborations between artists and local communities. The content includes detailed descriptions of artworks that engage with the region's landscape, promoting awareness of cultural heritage and ecological concerns through artistic expression. The site also provides critical insights into the theoretical frameworks underpinning these art practices, referencing land art, eco-art, and walking art methodologies. By situating contemporary works within the unique geographical and cultural context of Friuli Venezia Giulia, it contributes to the discourse on how art can interact meaningfully with place. Additionally, the platform archives photographic documentation, maps, and essays, offering a resource for researchers and practitioners interested in the relationship between art, geography, and environmental awareness.
Art Aia - Creatives In Residence
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V.O.N.A.R.

Vocal Orientation And Navigation Through development and practice of Driftsinging.

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