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Walking piece
2024

Walking the Weight of the World

A mulch "cultivator" emerged from collective and historical walks. This response to Rodin’s Burghers of Calais brings the weight, rhythm, and resilience of human movement into a museum through a path shaped by real and imagined journeys.

Sound walk
2018

The Woman of the Crowd

The audio walk examines the topic of flanerie from a feminist perspectives and presents 4 alternative (fictional and real) characters from arts and literature as possible flaneuses. Commissioned by Kunstmuseum Bonn on the occasion of the group show "The Flaneur: From Impressionism to the Present".

Happened
 

F for Farnham – Ghosts at the Castle

Sophie Austin
2024-03-09 11:00
Farnham Castle, Castle Street, Farnham, UK

Join us at Farnham Castle for a haunting walkabout with writer and director Sophie Austin.

Featured SWS25 24 Nov, 2025

Immersive Theater on an Intimate Frequency

John Bechtold and his co-creator Alli Ross created Where I End & You Begin, immersive theater that sends two participants on a tandem journey across MASS MoCA’s galleries and campus in North Adams, Massachusetts. This work is one of the shortlisted pieces for the Sound Walk September Awards 2025. Below, John discusses the work. Developed in a multi-year artist

Happened
 

Webinar: Colston’s Last Journey

Bristol M Shed and the Regional History Centre, University of the West of England
2024-03-21 18:30
Online

Colston’s Last Journey is a work of soundart created by writer and poet Ralph Hoyte in response to the toppling of the statue of Edward Colston in June 2020. Its theme is Bristol and the Transatlantic trafficking of enslaved Africans.

Curated news 18 Aug, 2022

A hike in Scotland’s borders – ‘a world of emerald hills, meandering rivers and tiny villages’ | Edinburgh holidays | The Guardian

The Borders Railway Line opens up walking trails through a landscape of rivers, ruined abbeys and museums, bringing to life a turbulent and poetic past Source: A hike in Scotland’s borders – ‘a world of emerald hills, meandering rivers and tiny villages’ | Edinburgh holidays | The Guardian

Sound walk
SWS24 2024

University of Leeds Public Art Audio Trail

As you explore the campus by foot, hear the stories behind the works of public art on display on the university's grounds. Insights relating to the sculptures are shared by the artists themselves, their families, experts and curators.

Walking piece
1963

Caminhando

Caminhando is a proposal that can be carried out by anyone, anywhere, with the following recommendations: a strip of paper should be glued in a twisted way, like a Mobius strip.

Sound walk
2017

Deutung 3.0

Simon Deuter - art historian, curator or artist himself? - offers a highly entertaining audio tour of Kassel with Deutung 3.0. The art tour starts with informative reflections on various works of art in public space. Then Deuter gradually lets you in on closely guarded secrets of the art world. But he also seems to be pursuing his own goals. Only which ones? And what role do you play?

Sound walk
2018

Lucas’ Kopfkino

While the children in the auditorium look spellbound at the screen, movie character Lucas is bored. After all, he already knows exactly what will happen next. Every time the film is shown, exactly the same things happen. And each time, Lucas plays only an unimportant supporting role, while his friends Anna and Yassin take center stage. But that’s over now! Lucas leaves the movie and sets out to have an adventure of his own in the real world.

Sound walk
SWS22 2022

historicity: London – A TALE OF TWO CITIES

historicity is a new series of audio walking tours, which explores how cities got to be the way they are - starting with London.

Sound walk
SWS24 2024

The Jewish Hungarian Experience of The Holocaust – A Radio Walk with John Hajdu

A Radio Walk at the Imperial War Museum, London.

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Walking pieces

Sound walk
SWS24 2024

The Natural History Museum: A guide of our gardens

Explore the new gardens of the Natural History Museum listening to poems and to scientists, Museum staff and other experts talk about the garden's design and the stories held within.

Walking piece
2021

Whose Lakefront

Whose Lakefront was a public art project that took the form of a group procession in downtown Chicago, marking the presence of unceded Native territory with a 1.5-mile long line of red sand.

Sound walk
SWS23 2023

Decolonising Green Spaces – A Radio Walk in the Chilterns, with Dr Geeta Ludhra.

Radio Walks podcast.

Walking piece
2018

Reykjavik Art Tour

Explore Reykjavik's artistic locations, museums, and popular viewing points throughout the city.

Articles on WLC

Curated news 24 Jan, 2025

National Trust launches immersive storytelling app – Museums + Heritage

Source: National Trust launches immersive storytelling app – Museums + Heritage

Curated news 29 Feb, 2020

walking through museums – Post-

If we haven’t gone to a museum together, I probably don’t like you very much. This isn’t to say anything against you—I’m sure I’m the problem in our potential relationship. It’s just that, at this point, I feel like I’ve gone to a museum with everyone I know—so many people, in fact, that I feel

Articles elsewhere

Stories by Henna ... 40

How the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Encourages Children to Lead Museum Tours.

In the May meeting of Museum Mindshare, our community gathered to share creative engagement projects that we were proud to have created for museum audiences. You can read a summary of major themes we discussed here. This month, we will feature short re...

Henna Wang
Stories by Henna ... 40

How a Human-Centered Approach to Art and Emotions Reimagines the Museum Experience.

In the May meeting of Museum Mindshare, our community gathered to share creative engagement projects that we were proud to have created for museum audiences. You can read a summary of major themes we discussed here. This month, we will feature short re...

Henna Wang
Stories by Henna ... 60

How Brooklyn Children’s Museum Introduced Tools of Advocacy to its Youngest Visitors.

In the May meeting of Museum Mindshare, our community gathered to share creative engagement projects that we were proud to have created for museum audiences. You can read a summary of major themes we discussed here. This month, we will feature short re...

Henna Wang
Walking Off the B... 70

Circling the Met: A Springtime Visit to Central Park and the Metropolitan Museum of Art

For a double feature of art and nature, the Metropolitan Museum of Art happens to be conveniently situated in Central Park. The front of the museum faces Fifth Avenue, its monumental wings stretching the blocks between E. 80th and E. 84th. The sides an...

Teri Tynes

fit-stramp

A footstep: I widna geng a fitstramp owre da door efter her.

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