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…

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 […]

In this text I reflect on certain characteristics of walking in a group, as a result of my research in the Grand Tour project. I develop concepts such as compass, time for nothing or ephemeral and nomadic community. Source: “We walk, then we are” – Grand Tour

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 […]

It is the simplest thing I can think of. And the simplest things always make the most sense. It is easy. You open your door, you close it behind you. You take your house with you and you walk. Your body moves through the world, becomes part of the worl...

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 […]

I left Hohe Wand, put on my suit again, walked to Vienna to spend two weeks in the city before walking to the west of Austria to meet up with some Nomads at a project called Schmiede. I wondered if it would be a good idea to continue wearing the suit i...

It feels like an anti-climax. Having almost reached the end of my walk and being stuck at a campsite because it is raining, sitting unadventurously inside the campsite restaurant drinking coffee and Grüner Veltliner. Yesterday evening, in the toilet bu...

It wasn't until the last two kilometers that I started to think about leaving C. behind. The first time the thought crossed my mind was when the path was overtaken by a cloud. I had seen the sunny sky turning into a cloudy grey mass getting darker and ...

I bought a new three piece walking suit. April 6th I will start walking to the Nomadic Village 2014, a 99 day walk to the south of Austria. Time for a new blog. Time to make sense again. Read more here: http://www.asoftarmour5.blogspot.nl/

The end and the beginning. I had feared this day. But only in the last couple of days, because for a long time there had been no end and no beginning apart from the beginning and the ending of the day.I had been enclosed in the day, lived the day like ...

A new adventure, a new blog. Continue reading about my 40 day walk with 40 people to the Nomadic Village in the south of France here: www.asoftarmour.blogspot.com