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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.

Walking piece
2016

It Takes a Year to Walk Around the Sun

It Takes a Year to Walk Around the Sun is a looped moving-image installation using a floor-projected, rhythmic, disorienting video to evoke physical and psychological immersion. It developed from a year-long performative Instagram project.

Walking piece
2016

Fracture Mob

Fracture Mob invited people worldwide to walk and get lost together, blending their real surroundings with a shared audio-guided imaginative space. Broadcast on Stress FM, it connected strangers across time zones for 29 minutes of collective disorientation.

Sound walk
2011

Hear Our Houston

Hear Our Houston is an archive of community-made audio walking tours (2011–2015) that capture personal stories, memories, and perspectives from across the city. Once an interactive platform, it remains a rich record of Houston’s voices, places, and shared creativity.

Walking piece
2014

Tour

Tour is an audio-video installation that memorializes four genocide sites worldwide, using hummed lullabies to evoke memory, loss, and reflection, exploring how histories of atrocity persist and demand remembrance.

the [video]flâneur

The artist walks like a „Flâneur“ through the city. He does not have a turtle with him (as the original Parisian Flâneur of the 1830‘s used to); later, he does not write stories, he does not write poems. He has only a video camera. He takes shots of the city; he takes shots of the “life” of the people of the city, sometimes he also shoots “himself” (…without camera moves, without zooming, without special lighting, with original sound, without permission); Later he chooses and combines the scenes, Installs and presents them online, offline, on site or off site, always under different contexts.

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