Nomadic
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Islands as stepping stones
Taking place as a key component of the WAP nomadic artistic residency, join us for a cafe discussion with artists live from the Stockholm archipelago. WAP (Walking as Practice) is an annual Walking Artist Residency bringing together international walking artists. This year it will be nomadic, as artists will be walking across the Stockholm Archipelago.
Project Qafila
Project Qafila by Marsad Drâa is a research platform exploring Saharan caravan routes, nomadic life, and desert heritage. It traces historical trade routes, cultural exchange, and the impact of geopolitical conflicts, while documenting the lives of contemporary nomadic families.
WALC Online course Session 4 : Walking the World / Marcher le Tout-Monde: Mobility, Anthropology, and Artistic Practice
This session reflects on walking across cultures in Europe, Asia, Africa, and North America. Through films and field-based artworks, Sylvie Marchand presents her ethnographic and artistic approach shaped by the movements of the communities she works with.
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Artist to Walk Around Iceland in Three-Month Nomadic Art Project
Berlin-based artist and photographer Dario J. Laganà will begin a three-month walking project around Iceland in June, combining performance art, environmental observation and documentary work. The project, titled Of Walking on Foot, will run from 4 June to 27 August 2026. Laganà plans to travel counterclockwise around the island on foot while pulling a custom-built…
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Crossing the Limits Prespa / Grammos / Mytilene / Thermi / Sikinos / Marousi / Athens The 138 kilometers of Limits
For over four months I walked 138 kilometers in five different sites in Greece in an effort to discover the Greek Landscape in its totality and redefine it.
Photogrammetry in Walking Art
“Nomadism” presupposes the existence of a “landscape”, where the “Nomad” with walk-explore and will collect information in an empirical-emotive way. This information will be transformed in experience on which his/her mental and creative map will be composed. Through this map, ideas will be born and these ideas will facilitate the emergence of the “nomads” double
Walking Festival of Sound: Artist Walks / Johanna Steindorf
“Many of my works deal with mediated presences, with the real-and-imagined presence of bodies in space. In the video series “Present views of past streets” you are taken along imaginary walks in Google Street View. In audio walks such as “Still here, sometimes there” a voice speaks over headphones and accompanies you on an actual
• Long Weekend Walk – Cornwall
Land In Curiosity presents a new series of long weekend walks, set along the stunning coast of Cornwall. Journey through small fishing villages, rugged coastlines and sprawling English countryside as part of a temporary nomadic community. Expect 2-5 hours of walking a day, wild camping, time for personal reflection and a range of practices designed
Articles elsewhere
Nomadisme et voyages sonores, espaces d’écoute temporaires et partagés…
Il m’est parfois difficile, pour différentes raisons, de fixer une activité dans un lieu précis, espace qui relèverait de l’immeuble (ce qui, aux vues de la loi, ne peut être déplacé), ou pire, de l’immobilité, physique et projectuelle.Les contingences matérielles, techniques, occasionnellement financières, poussent mes expériences de terrain à voyager d’un lieu à l’autre, hors-les-murs.Exemple […]
The Impossibility of Straight Walking
While chatting about walking the other day, as we do, Fiona mentioned something she'd read in Shane O'Mara's excellent book In Praise Of Walking. Humans are, apparently, incapable of walking in straight lines when blindfolded or otherwise prevented from seeing landmarks. Participants were asked to walk either in a large and dense forest or in […]
On Walking by Phil Smith
The post brings two new books on walking, from the UK. On the cover, photographs of lush vegetation bring back pleasant memories from rural and urban walks across green-grassed, greyed-sky Britain. The first book On Walking, opens with a long subtitle. The author – artist, writer, playwright, performer, academic, counter-tourist – owns up to “stalking […]
a soft armour