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Migrating VOICES: walks across distances
Migrating VOICES is an emerging artistic creation supported by Creative Europe over a four-year period, developed in collaboration with five European countries within the project Walking Arts & Local Communities – W.A.L.C. It unfolds simultaneously at both local and international levels. The project is a participatory artistic exploration of contemporary mobilities, unfolding through walks connected
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Counter-Narratives You Have to Walk To
Recently, we integrated the OVERHEAR API into our Museum of Walking, making it easy for creators using OVERHEAR to include their work into our archives. Here’s Kibriya Mehrban talking about her experience as part of the app’s core team. OVERHEAR a free app that hosts a large variety of audio, from poetry to oral histories
Walking projects as creation hubs in Europe
WALKING ART AND RELATIONAL GEOGRAPHIES Walking projects as creation hubs in Europe. Round table Ivana Pinna, Thomas Keis, Natacha Antao, Miguel Bandeira Duarte, Beatrice Khoumeri and Clara Garí. Moderator Herman Bashiron Mendolicchio
On the politics of walking
On August 26, Babak Fakhamzadeh of walk · listen · create and Mary Marinopoulou of Action Synergy, as part of the 4-year project Walking Arts and Local Communities, hosted the online event Politics of Walking: Grief, Solidarity and Resistance, bringing together four artists and activists; Nohad ElHajj, Marta Moreno Muñoz, Robert Yerachmiel Sniderman, and Tom Jeffreys. What followed was a profound dialogue on walking as a political and embodied act in the face of violence, injustice, and systemic disconnection.
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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.
The Journey of Nishiyuu
In 2013, six Cree youth from Whapmagoostui walked 1,600 km to Ottawa as part of the Idle No More movement to support Chief Theresa Spence and Indigenous rights. Joined by others along the way, they were celebrated as symbols of Indigenous resilience and unity.
Articles on WLC
The Man Behind the Radical Walking Tours of New York City | The Nation
Asad Dandia sued the NYPD after it spied on his family and community. Now he uses people’s history to reclaim the streets from the systems that surveilled him. Source: The Man Behind the Radical Walking Tours of New York City | The Nation
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Wanderers of Earth and Sky: Walking as Art in a Time of Crisis
In early 2023, we hosted Teri Rueb and Bill Gilbert for an online cafe, called Being led by the stars, in which they shared a powerful and poetic conversation about their practices, which both revolve around walking, not merely as movement, but as a way of knowing, resisting, and reconnecting, bringing together a global audience to explore how walking art engages with celestial rhythms, climate anxieties, and questions of embodiment in the Anthropocene
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Walking as political resistance: From May 1968 to contemporary marches
Walking has long served as a potent form of political expression, transforming the simple act of moving through public spaces into a declaration of dissent, solidarity, and hope. From the revolutionary fervor of May 1968 in Paris to the contemporary global marches advocating for workers' rights and protesting state abuses, walking remains an enduring symbol of collective resistance against systemic injustices.
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Living Streets Aotearoa policy questions to political parties – 2026 Election
Living Streets Aotearoa believes that it is important that New Zealand has national policy that supports walking and pedestrians. As part of this effort, we have sent the following questions to political parties in advance of the 2026 election. We will...
Engagements auriculaires
Plus le temps passe, plus grossissent les tensions, climatiques, géopolitiques, sociales, plus le secteur culturel et artistique est invité à s’engager dans une résistance humaniste, écologique, si ce n’est écosophique.Desartsonnants, car il s’agit ici de sa position personnelle et non d’une injonction moralisatrice, ne peut pas rester dans une tour d’ivoire coupée des réalités. Il […]
Fred Forest, Hygiene of Art: The City Invaded by Blank Space (1973)
This was a performance walking by Fred Forest in the streets of São Paulo, Brazil under the military dictatorship. The artist hired 15 professional sandwich board men to walk with him carrying blank signs. “The goal of this series of provocative actions undertaken under the cover of art was to create symbolic/utopian spaces of popular […]
Events
Separation &Unity
We will make a ritual: three pilgrimages considering Separation and Unity. The trinity will allow us to engage in the spiritual. Each walk will consist of exercises for individuals, a group game, and ambulatory prompt. With Tamsin Grainger (UK).
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Daniella Turbin SP010986 I Open Studio
The New Art Gallery Walsall Daniella Turbin SP010986 Wolverhampton based artist Daniella Turbin took up the pursuit of long distance walking out of necessity when she was living in a remote area of Cumbria. Since returning to the West Midlands in 2019 Daniella has been determined to walk every square kilometre of the UK Ordnance
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