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Highlights
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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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
Daniella Turbin SP010986 I Walk and Chalk
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
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
• Hygiene of Art: The City Invaded by Blank Space
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.
Live-Taped Video Corridor
Live-Taped Video Corridor uses stacked monitors showing live and pre-recorded footage from a corridor camera. Walking down, viewers see themselves shrink on the top screen while unnervingly absent on the bottom, creating a disorienting sense of doubling.
Sight Unseen: An Un-camouflaging for Guildwood
Collaborative project where youth created ghillie suits to explore visibility, belonging, and connections to nature, culminating in a site-specific “un-camouflaging” performance in Guildwood Park with support from the Ontario Arts Council.
Articles on WLC
How to disappear: Meet Birmingham’s invisible woman – TOPIA Magazine
A middle-aged white woman misidentified in a white space is not a big deal, but what if you lost your head? Fiona Cullinan paints herself grey to shine a spotlight on surveillance and get us talking – and ‘weird walking’ Source: How to disappear: Meet Birmingham’s invisible woman – TOPIA Magazine
Articles elsewhere
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 […]
Interview with Bradley Davies
As part of the release of the hardcover release of my book, Walking as Artistic Practice (softcover comes out in April!), I’m going to be publishing some brief interviews with the various artists, authors, researchers, creatives, collectives, and platforms whose art practice, written material, or other works I cite and mention. My eleventh interview in […]
Birmingham Dazzle Walk
A silent walk through an observed city Every journey starts with a single step. In 2016 mine was finally getting around to sorting out my crappy online passwords. I took a short cybersecurity course and decided to pay it forward by offering help sessions in a local café. This grew into The Interrogang – a monthly […]
