Crossing Surda by Emily Jacir documents her daily walk across the Surda checkpoint to Birzeit University, exposing military restrictions, violence, and the disrupted lifeline between Ramallah and surrounding villages.

Experiência No 2 was a radical action in which Flávio de Carvalho walked against a Corpus Christi procession, refusing to remove his hat. The crowd’s reaction neared violence, exposing mass psychology and anticipating performance art.

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.

And While London Burns is a downloadable opera-for-one guiding listeners through London’s financial district, exploring climate change. With music and choral work by Isa Suarez and narration by Douglas Hodge, it blends thriller, opera, and immersive soundscape.

MISSA presents 100 pairs of army boots suspended within a sparse grid. The work creates an unsettling silence, inviting viewers to reflect on war’s invisible consequences, the tension between absence and presence, and the quiet mechanisms of obedience and loss.

In 1966, farmworkers marched 300 miles from Delano to Sacramento to protest low wages, unsafe working conditions, and the denial of union rights. Their action drew national support, pressured growers and officials, and helped secure the first farmworker union contract.

In Vietnamese Women, Spero repeats an image of a Vietnamese woman fleeing the 1968 civilian massacre, taken from the news. Figures are layered, smudged, and collaged to convey movement, with the cigarette in her mouth symbolizing survival.

Walking Without Walls is a digitally co-created art piece by May Murad and Rachel Ashton, forming twin marathon-length walks in Gaza and Scotland, using shared images, drawings and plant studies to explore healing, distance and collaboration across enforced borders.

Chance Encounters (1994) by Rut Blees Luxemburg is a nocturnal performance and photographic series exploring women’s presence in the urban night. Cos-playing as executives, Luxemburg engaged strangers, revealing traces, atmospheres, and social currents of London streets.

The City Invaded by Blank Space (1973) is a participatory artwork presented at the 12th São Paulo Biennial during Brazil’s military dictatorship. Through blank signs, media interventions, and public actions, it created spaces for free expression, challenged censorship and state control, and culminated in the artist’s arrest, marking a powerful act of political resistance.

Gates of Troy (1969) unravels aluminum in the street, referencing Homer’s Iliad - Achilles dragging Hector’s corpse. The twisting metal takes on a corporeal presence, documented in both street and studio photographs.