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Walking piece 2010

A Common Third

In A Common Third, Simon Pope explores walking as a collaborative, intellectual, and social process. Inviting guests to navigate unfamiliar terrains together, Pope investigates how shared decisions, landscapes, and cultural practices shape both the journey and the experience of being together.

Sound walk
Sound walk 1992

Unsilent Night

Unsilent Night is a mobile sound sculpture where participants play pre-recorded tracks as they walk, creating a 45-minute layered ambient soundscape. Performed annually worldwide in over 175 cities.

Walking piece
Walking piece 2017

Breathing-in-the-Breathable

Breathing-in-the-Breathable is a collaborative project by Robert Bean and Barbara Lounder, exploring walking as art and pedagogy. Through site-specific works across multiple locations, it engages with the environment, militarism, and climate crises, challenging histories and ideologies.

Walking piece
Walking piece 2003

LINKED

LINKED is a long-running radio sound walk responding to the M11 Link Road demolitions in East London. Lamppost transmitters broadcast voices of displaced residents, forming an unseen, ghostlike layer exploring memory, protest and place.

Walking piece
Walking piece 2016

Walk the Line

Lauren Brincat's Walk the Line explores borders, territory, and disappearance through walking. Filmed at Cape Leeuwin, Australia, the video contrasts geological formations, dunes, and ocean, invoking both physical and metaphorical boundaries in a haunting, solitary performance.

Sound walk
Sound walk 1966

LISTEN

LISTEN by Max Neuhaus is a pioneering soundwalk in Manhattan, transforming ambient city sounds into an artistic, immersive experience that highlights the spatial, social, and perceptual dimensions of listening.

Walking piece
Walking piece 2016

(LISTEN)

A participatory soundwalk reinterpreting Max Neuhaus’s Listen (1966), centering Deaf and multisensory experiences. Kim guides participants through Manhattan, exploring sound, memory, and social power, challenging hearing-centric norms in sound art.

Walking piece
Walking piece 2008

Footnotes: Cape Jourimain

A 2 km walk along Cape Jourimain’s Lighthouse Trail during the 2008 Eco‑Arts Festival explored life at the lighthouse, using audio fragments to evoke isolation, hardships, pleasures, and memories of four generations who lived there.

Walking piece
Walking piece 2013

iAmbic Pedometer: Ur Manoeuvre

iAmbic Pedometer is an iPhone video of Brennan walking through Sunderland, mixing ambient sound with murmured, poetic utterances. Drawing on Wordsworth, Schwitters, and the idea of the ur, it links language’s sonic origins to the rhythm of walking.

Walking piece
Walking piece 1999

Hillclimbing

Hillclimbing is a video by Cardiff and Miller showing their ascent of a snow-covered hill. Filmed from Miller’s perspective, with sounds of footsteps, breaths, and their dog, the looped work never reaches the summit, emphasizing effort and repetition.

Sound walk
Sound walk 2004

Drift

Drift is a site-specific GPS-based sound installation exploring wandering, disorientation, and the limits of GPS. Visitors traverse a shifting 2 km² space of sand, sea, and interactive sounds, where footsteps, spoken word, and tides create a playful, unpredictable experience of place.

Walking piece
Walking piece 2013

Session

Session is a video triptych filmed in Sharjah where natural elements play regional percussion instruments. It explores socio-spatial textures and cultural identity, inviting viewers to navigate their environment as voyagers and cartographers.

e-drift

To foreground the role of electronic technology in shifting the range and possibilities of cultural wandering.

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