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Walking piece
1978

DELIRIUM AMBULATORIUM

Hélio Oiticica’s Delirium Ambulatorium explores urban wandering as a creative practice, a “to-and-from” movement without linearity, where walking through the city feeds the mind, transforms urban space into a playground, and allows new artistic ideas to emerge through sensory, bodily, and chance encounters.

Walking piece
1973

Adjungierte Dislokationen (Adjunct Dislocations)

An expanded cinema piece exploring walking, filmed from three perspectives: 2 cameras on the body and 1 external. It challenges perceptions of space, body, and objectivity, questioning how different viewpoints influence our understanding of reality.

Walking Stumbling Limping Falling: A conversation

Phil Smith
Happened
SWS20  

Saturday Sunset Sounds: Walk Listen Dream

Giorgia Micene, Maria Grazia Siri, Giuseppe Gavazza,
2020-09-05 15:00
Levice, CN, Italia

Join us on September 5th 2020. Meeting point at 5.00 pm in Piazza del Municipio n.1, Levice (CN) Piedmont, Italy. Walking through the old path that lead from the small rural village to the top of the hill (langa), in silence, listening to the sounds emerging from the nature of this special rural area, and feeling the inner changes risen by this experience. Perceptions, emotions and memories might be shared once we rest at the first "listen and talk" session.

Walking piece
1970

4 dias 4 noites (4 days 4 nights)

Artur Barrio’s 4 dias 4 noites (1970) was a four-day, four-night solitary dérive through Rio de Janeiro, leaving no records—only memory itself, a hallucinatory archive that later informed and inspired his subsequent works.

Walking piece
1955

Please, walk on here (Kono-ue wo Aruite Kudasai)

In 1955, Shimamoto’s Please Walk on Here used stable and unstable boards to make participants physically experience risk and instability. Recreated for the 1993 Venice Biennale, it highlighted bodily engagement and precarious perception.

Walking piece
1973

World-Wide-Walks

World-Wide-Walks by Peter d’Agostino is a decades-long project exploring walking through physical, virtual, and networked spaces. Combining video, installations, and VR, it examines movement, perception, environment, technology, and human interaction.

Walking piece
2010

Blind Field Shuttle

Blind Field Shuttle is a non-visual walking tour where participants, guided eyes-closed by the artist, explore urban spaces to reflect on accessibility and sensory learning, fostering trust, connection, and shared community experience.

Walking piece
2006

On Perspective and Motion – Part II

An artist fascinated by walking, time, and perception, exploring the human scale of movement through video art. With a background in animation, they analyze “walk cycles” and use walking as a lens to investigate unseen temporal structures and the everyday.

Sound walk
SWS21 2021

Keep Going Then Vanish by Jack Nicholls

Keep Going Then Vanish is an immersive walking experience by ThickSkin, part of the Walk This Play® series in collaboration with The Royal Exchange Theatre, exploring an unfamiliar Manchester through changing urban landscapes and introspective narrative. Participants use the free Walk This Play® app to follow the guided walk, which combines storytelling with movement to engage with themes of memory, perception, and presence.

Sound walk
2016

Aurora Sonora

Aurora Sonora is a soundwalk project in the Aurora district of Turin featuring geolocated, site-specific sound compositions accessed via the Echoes app. Developed by three sound artists, it explores urban perception through attentive listening and encourages new ways of experiencing public spaces.

Walking piece
Marŝarto23 2022

SCHRITTWEISE Choreographing City / Choreographing Walking

A participatory performance and a free construction-play-kit for studies, researches and works on choreographing walking.

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Walking pieces

Sound walk
2020

Drift in the studio: William Kentridge’s Transitus and Thinking

This paper examines the role of walking as a cognitive and physical process integral to William Kentridge’s artistic practice, emphasizing how movement within the studio facilitates the emergence of ideas through drawing. It analyzes the studio as a dynamic space where walking and drawing intersect, producing intermedia works that navigate the boundary between possibility and impossibility.

Drifting Bodies / Fluent Spaces

Articles elsewhere

Blake Morris 85

Score #18 – Mel Anie

Score #18 by Mel Anie [score base: A white card with shampoo instructions; photo and score: Mel Anie (2021); score text: Shamp/articipation performance”’./Bottled on: /perception and cognition./,/the space and the self./Formula No: E0517KVE3FSH#002...

Blake Morris
Spaziergangswisse... 65

#levels of perception: Stadtansichten 2020/2021

Die Seminarteilnehmer*innen von #levels of perception: Stadtansichten haben urbane Orte mittels künstlerisch-soziologischer Strategien untersucht. Das Fachgebiet Bildende Kunst der Fakultät für Architektur am KIT (Karlsruhe) hat im Wintersemester 2020/...

Indra Schelble
exercises in bein... 55

Alice in Wonderland

It is very possible in this city that you walk home hungry in the light of a supermoon and you pass a tray with small chocolate croissants leaning on a garbage bin asking to be eaten. And you try one and although it isn't as fresh as it was this mor...

Monique Besten

Links

www.ewaeckerle.com

The website http://www.ewaeckerle.com belongs to Eva Waeckerle, a visual artist whose work primarily explores the relationship between walking, space, and perception. The site features a portfolio of her projects that often involve walking as a method of inquiry and artistic practice, integrating site-specific interventions, participatory elements, and documentation through photography and video. Her work engages with themes of geography, landscape, and cultural memory, examining how movement through space influences experience and understanding. The website is organized to present detailed descriptions of Eva Waeckerle’s ongoing and past projects, publications, and exhibitions. It also includes an about section with biographical information and a CV outlining her education and professional activities. The portfolio exemplifies a multidisciplinary approach, combining art, geography, and social practice, while emphasizing the experiential dimension of walking as an artistic and research tool.
Emmanuelle Waeckerlé
Personal websites

Walkspace

Walkspace.uk is a digital platform dedicated to exploring the cultural and artistic dimensions of walking. It documents and presents various walking projects, artworks, and exhibitions that investigate walking as a creative and research practice. The site includes contributions from artists, writers, and cultural producers who use walking to engage with environments, histories, and social contexts, emphasizing walking not merely as transportation but as a mode of artistic inquiry and spatial experience. The platform archives walking-related events, provides critical essays, and showcases multimedia content that reflects on how walking shapes perception, place-making, and narrative. It serves as a resource for understanding the intersections between walking, art, and cultural geography, highlighting diverse approaches ranging from urban explorations to site-specific interventions in natural landscapes. Walkspace.uk situates walking within contemporary art discourse and cultural studies, fostering a nuanced appreciation of walking as a meaningful cultural practice.
Organisations

Walking Partner Arts

The URL leads to "Open Walk," a blog dedicated to exploring walking as an art form and cultural practice. The site presents a range of writings, projects, and reflections that examine how walking interacts with urban and rural environments, histories, and social contexts. It features contributions that discuss the role of walking in artistic expression, cultural geography, and spatial experiences, often highlighting walks as investigative and performative acts. Content on the blog includes detailed accounts of specific walking projects, theoretical essays on the relationship between movement, place, and perception, as well as documentation of collaborative and solo walks that intersect with diverse cultural and environmental themes. The site serves as a resource for those interested in the interdisciplinary study of walking, combining insights from art, geography, anthropology, and environmental studies.
Projects

guerrilla geography

Tactical, radical, creative, unusual and/or surprising geographies that challenge people to think differently about their relationships with places.

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