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At the Last Stop, Walking
The walking takes place in the village Beljakovce, northern North Macedonia, at the final stop of an unfinished railway meant to connect the country with Bulgaria (Corridor VIII). Despite three decades of construction, the line remains incomplete.
WALC Confluence 13 – When art takes to the road
Conceived by Clara Gari over the last twelve years, El Grand Tour has explored what happens when art leaves the exhibition hall, the stage or the auditorium and takes to the road. Clara Gari invites you to Grand Tour 2026. “In 2026, we return to three territories that have marked us deeply: the Eastern Pyrenees,
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• Displacing territories: Project for the border Brazil/Uruguay
Displacing Territories: Project for the Brazil/Uruguay Border is a journey as a solitary traveler that the artist undertook at the end of April through the border zone of the pampas, specifically from Barra do Quaraí to Pelotas.
Selkirk exhibition explores art of walking
A compelling new exhibition by acclaimed textile artist and educator Muriel Prince is now open at Halliwell’s House Museum, Selkirk, offering visitors an immersive journey through landscape, memory and creative discovery. Source: Selkirk exhibition explores art of walking
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Take a Random Walk Around the Berlin Wall Just Months Before Its Sudden Fall (Summer 1989) | Open Culture
Officially, the Berlin Wall fell on November 9, 1989. Demolition would take more than four years, and a few sections remain for memorial purposes, but it was on that date that passage between East and West Berlin — and thus East and West Germany — opened to all citizens of both countries. Source: Take a
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L’Arbre D’Oublier (Oblivion Tree)
Filmed in Ouidah, L’Arbre D’Oublier shows Nazareth walking 437 times around the Oblivion Tree, countering a ritual imposed on enslaved Africans to erase memory, and linking Africa and Brazil through the history of the transatlantic slave trade.
Walking pieces
Rearview Walking Stick
The Rearview Walking Sticks combine tree branches and car mirrors to disrupt ordinary walking. Playful yet cumbersome, they make participants reflect on movement, memory, and perception, turning walking through the landscape into a participatory, performative artwork.
Articles on WLC
Submissions – Performativity(ies) of Memory(ies) Interdisciplinary Conference 2026
Abstract submission deadline 15 July 2026 Recommended topics: Shared memory of experiences and knowledge Participatory research and practice as testimony of (the) memory Community-generated memory … Source: Submissions – Performativity(ies) of Memory(ies) Interdisciplinary Conference 2026
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Women’s History Walk in Central Park « Adafruit Industries – Makers, hackers, artists, designers and engineers!
Celebrate spring and Women’s History Month in Central Park with a mile long self guided tour: This self-guided walk highlights some of the women who created, inspired, and placed monuments an… Source: Women’s History Walk in Central Park « Adafruit Industries – Makers, hackers, artists, designers and engineers!
• Walking a Contemporary Valley Section
Claudia Zeiske walked From Mountain to Sea, a 220km walk through Aberdeenshire, and a COVID-19 commemoration walk, marked by benches, music, an embroidered tablecloth, illustrated map, and film.Her work is shortlisted for the Marŝarto Awards 2025. Below, she reflects on the experience. Over two years, I walked from mountain to sea forth and back across Aberdeenshire in the
• On the politics of walking
On August 26, Babak Fakhamzadeh of walk · listen · create and Mary Marinopoulou of Action Synergy, as part of the 4-year project Walking Arts and Local Communities, hosted the online event Politics of Walking: Grief, Solidarity and Resistance, bringing together four artists and activists; Nohad ElHajj, Marta Moreno Muñoz, Robert Yerachmiel Sniderman, and Tom Jeffreys. What followed was a profound dialogue on walking as a political and embodied act in the face of violence, injustice, and systemic disconnection.
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Remembrance Day for Lost Species 2025
Please join us for a community walk along the coast from Wardie Bay to Granton / Royston (the ‘Brick’) Beach to search for flat oyster shells on Remembrance Day for Lost Species. Date: 30 November 2025. Time: 2-3.30pm (14.00 – 15.30). Meet: Wardie Bay, Granton, Edinburgh. Ending: walk to Granton (Brick) Beach and The Pitt. … Continue reading Remembrance Day for Lost Species 2025
• Breaking the Dead Silence revisited: a discussion
Tuesday 15 April: Breaking the Dead Silence revisitedBristol PRSC 18.30-20.00Details and tickets here: https://www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/prsc/tue-15-apr-breaking-the-dead-silence-127816#e127816In the lead up to the Bristol Transformed festival, an evening conversation about walking, memorialisation and colonialism. I will be talking about my current practice and building out from contributions to the book published last year. Locating the sites of memory, listening for the spectres, te [...]
Events
WALC Online Course Session 6 : Collective Memory Walk (Micro-Project)
The session introduces oral history, storytelling and “walking archives” as decolonial and sensory methods. Participants design and facilitate a Collective Memory Walk, engaging local people and generating material for the WALC toolkit.
• In the days when humans could talk
The protagonists of stories from the time when animals spoke are now being transformed by a paradigm developed by machines and unnatural intelligences. If there was a time when humans communicated with each other and with animals in a language of understanding, the rift drawn by God seems to be getting deeper and deeper.This walk,
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Links
www.annececilielie.com
Where the Love is – new poetry collection from Hobnob Press
Walking Art / Walking Aesthetics
