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Walk This Way. The Art of Walking
09/10/2026 - 31/01/2027
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Walking piece Marŝarto26
2026

Mnémosyne. Paris → Nafplio, 100 days on foot

One hundred days on foot, Paris to Nafplio. The heartbeat replaces the kilometre as the unit of measurement. Each day yields one sealed Cardio-Cartography. On 5 November 2026, ten minutes of restitution at the University of the Peloponnese.

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Walk This Way. The Art of Walking

Ludwig Múzeum
9 Oct, 2026 - 31 Jan, 2027
Budapest, Ludwig Múzeum, Komor Marcell Street, Hungary

The international group exhibition Walk This Way explores walking as an art form, a narrative device and a critical practice, through the presentation of works, projects and actions that instrumentalise the everyday act of walking.

Walking piece
2018

Gallery Go

Walking through the streets of Jinze, Shanghai, Anne Mølleskov wore a canvas dress transformed into a mobile gallery of forest photographs, creating a transient, autonomous art platform that moved freely through public space.

Happened
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Mnémosyne. Paris → Nafplio, 100 days on foot

2026-07-29 04:00
Multiple locations

One hundred days on foot, Paris to Nafplio. The heartbeat replaces the kilometre as the unit of measurement. Each day yields one sealed Cardio-Cartography. On 5 November 2026, ten minutes of restitution at the University of the Peloponnese.

video 2026  

FOOTNOTES

FOOTNOTES is an immersive multi-media puppetry performance created, designed and directed by Theodora Skipitares with Music and Lyrics by Sxip Shirey.

video 2007  

The Rock Tours Around Great Britain, 2006-2007

On 23 September 2006, He Yunchang collected a beach rock that was the size of a shoe at the Beach of Boulmer, located at the Northumberland Coast of England.

post 21 Jun, 2023

Cybernetic Capitalism, and the changing face of art, or, “what is orange and like a parrot?”

Bob Parks argues that, through the Black Aesthetic, we might be able to throw of the yoke of big capital, controlling society, and us, through the tools of Cybernetic Capitalism.

post 19 Jul, 2022

The convergence of Performance Art and Walking Art as a quantum experience

Putting it another way - the convergence of Performance Art and Walking Art is a quantum experience. What I ,mean by that is at an ideas-level all sorts of new relationships become possible.

Walking piece
1921

Excursions & DADA Tours: 1st Visit: Saint-Julien-le-Pauvre Church

An experimental 1921 Dada walk that mocked guided tours by leading participants to an ordinary Paris churchyard. Manifestos, absurd readings, and chance actions turned a banal site into anti-art, challenging tradition and redefining walking as perfor

Walking piece
2021

nós aqui, entre o céu e a terra (we here, between sky and earth)

27 chairs were carried by performers on bamboo poles from nearby institutions to the 34th Biennial, then arranged as sculptures and conversation spaces, connecting people, objects, and places in a shared, politically and socially resonant experience.

Walking piece
2020

Invisible to Visible

A personal pilgrimage, walking a familiar yet untrodden path, drawing a line, a physical and mental marker of transformation. This resulted in a series of large and small drawings using embodied repeated mark-making make Visible the Invisible.

Walking piece
1974

Procession

*Procession* was performed in early 1974 when Teresa Murak wore a coat of cress seeds and walked through the streets of Warsaw, merging feminine labor, nature, and politics. The act, documented in photos and oral history, became a landmark feminist performance.

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Walking pieces

Walking piece
1973

Head Sculpture

Head Sculpture, a performance by Efrat Natan, used a T-shaped headpiece worn while walking in Tel Aviv after Independence Day to restrict vision and draw attention, questioning belonging, conformity, and militarized urban space through bodily limitation.

Walking piece
1976

Relation in Space

In Relation in Space, Abramović and Ulay, both naked, walk toward each other, collide, and fall, repeating the movement until exhausted. The piece explores their romantic and artistic relationship, gender dynamics, and the concept of ‘That Self.’

Walking piece
1968

Aus der Mappe der Hundigkeit (From the Portfolio of Doggedness)

VALIE EXPORT led Peter Weibel on a leash in Vienna (1968), reversing gender roles and “animalizing” man. Photographed in black and white, the action critiques social order, gender norms, and public behavior through onlookers’ reactions.

Walking piece
2007

Body Techniques (after A Line in Ireland, Richard Long, 1974)

Body Techniques is a series of 8 photographs by Carey Young exploring the body in globalized corporate spaces. Set in Dubai and Sharjah, she reworks conceptual art actions, highlighting tension between individual agency and overwhelming, hyperreal corporate landscapes.

Articles on WLC

Curated news 21 May, 2026

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…

Curated news 01 Aug, 2024

Marina Abramović to Revisit Great Wall Walk in Shanghai | News | Ocula

Modern Art Museum will present the legendary performance artist’s first museum show in China from October, including images of the walk and brand new works. Source: Marina Abramović to Revisit Great Wall Walk in Shanghai | News | Ocula

Curated news 11 May, 2023

Puppeteer walks 1,000km in France dressed as giraffe – Henley Standard

Source: Puppeteer walks 1,000km in France dressed as giraffe – Henley Standard

Curated news 25 Apr, 2020

The bittersweet story of Marina Abramović’s epic walk on the Great Wall of China | Travel | The Guardian

In 1988 Abramović and Ulay trekked from opposite ends of the wall to meet in the middle – but this Herculean act of love and performance art was doomed from the start Source: The bittersweet story of Marina Abramović’s epic walk on the Great Wall of China | Travel | The Guardian

Articles elsewhere

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Walking Together at a Distance

Exploring the space that separates and connects us

Annemarie Lopez•
Walk with me: Annemarie Lopez
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Make China Great Again Tour

The US has its MAGA movement, lead by their current president, which might be described as playing to a myth of national revival. I'm not interested here to what extent that is hyperbole, I simply want to start by noting how powerful a force it is. Sim...

Bill Aitchison
The Tour of All Tours
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‘One Step Forward, Two Steps Back’ – 11 November 2023

Another push to update neglected write-ups, posts and events, I set aside some time to round up and post footage of the performance that was enacted on Stepcote Hill in Exeter back in 2023.Although this performance was quite short in nature, the settin...

Patrick Ford
33 Temple
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ONLINE 2024 CHOREOGRAPHIC MENTORSHIP PROGRAM

ONLINE FALL 2024 CHOREOGRAPHIC MENTORSHIP PROGRAM A FULL immersion into the creative Act of Choreography For choreographers, dancers, theater directors, performance artists, filmmakers, and multidisciplinary artists. FACULTY: ANABELLA LENZU DATES: October 5, 12, 19 & 26, 2024 (Saturdays from 11am-1pm – NYC time) Online Choreographic Mentorship Program, is an Online 1 month program where YOU can immerse yourself […]

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Anabella Lenzu's Blog

Events

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On Cybernetic Capitalism

2023-06-20 18:00
Online

We welcome back Bob Parks. Bob was one of the pioneers of performance art in England in the 1960s, and on the US West Coast in the 1970s, and eventually has seen his practice evolve into a mixture of performance and walking art, subscribing to the idea that Walking Art is Performance Art on wheels, with the capacity to bring in the whole world's population.

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Walking perimeters of Vic

2022-07-08 20:00
Vic, Spain

A derive around the perimeters of Vic with the Deriva Mussol group

Walking Art and Relational Geographies (2022)
Happened
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Walking with Bignose

2021-05-25 18:00
Online

Join this stimulating discussion, where performance artist Bob Parks shares his practice at a motivational level around walking art as a catalyst for creative activity through socially oriented performances with a finished art work.

Happened
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Situationist practice in southwest China

2021-02-09 16:00
Online

In our first café with guests from Asia, Luofei and Vera van de Nieuwenhof will share and discuss their knowledge and personal experiences of performance art, Situationism and other artistic walking practices in Kunming, China.

Videos

video 2022  

Walk in time

Why not slow down? In a world that thrives on constant growth, competition, action and speed, slowing down is more important than ever.

Walking Art and Relational Geographies (2022)
video 2019  

America’s largest slave revolt brought back to life

Performance artist Dread Scott recreates the the largely untold story of the 1811 slave rebellion in southern Louisiana.

Links

Amanda Gutiérrez Amanda Gutierrez’ Artist Website

Amanda Gutiérrez explores the experience of home, belonging, and cultural identity by bringing into focus details of everyday practices whose ordinary status makes it particularly hard for us to notice their key role in defining who we are. Trained and graduated initially as a stage designer from The National School of Theater, Gutiérrez uses a range of media such as sound art and performance art to investigate how these conditions of everyday life set the stage for our experiences and in doing so shape our individual and collective identities.
Personal websites

pacing

Repeatedly going over the same terrain, generally backwards and forwards, although there is no reason why it can’t be circular. Whether done in- or outdoors it is usually restricted to a small area. Can be done at any time of the day or night. Eg when trying to get or keep a newborn to sleep.

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