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Walking piece
1993

Consequences of a Gesture

*Consequences of a Gesture* (1993) by Daniel J. Martinez, with VinZula Kara, was a participatory parade through Chicago commemorating immigrant labor history. It combined performance, monument, and community engagement, turning streets into a living, historical stage.

Walking piece
1973

Head Sculpture

Head Sculpture, a performance by Efrat Natan, used a T-shaped headpiece worn while walking in Tel Aviv after Independence Day to restrict vision and draw attention, questioning belonging, conformity, and militarized urban space through bodily limitation.

The Society of the Spectacle

Guy Debord

Panegyric

Guy Debord
Curated news 24 Apr, 2023

Le Spectacle | Strandhem

1 track album Strandhem’s first release is a 32min album-song called “Le Spectacle”, lyrically based on the book by French philosopher and critical theorist Guy Debord “La Societé du Spectacle”. The book, along with the album, is a social critique of our society of appearances and personal commodification at the expense of our happiness and

Curated news 04 Oct, 2020

Assange’s show trial is the culmination of the Society of the Spectacle

John Pilger has watched Julian Assanges extradition trial from the public gallery at Londons Old Bailey He spoke with Timothy Erik Strampouml Source: Pilger says Assange hearing a Stalinist show trial

Walking piece
1962

Dylaby

Dylaby was an exhibition that transformed the Stedelijk Museum into a playful labyrinth, prioritizing participation, bodily engagement, and co-creation over traditional art objects, foreshadowing experiential art of the 1960s.

Walking piece
1970

Ministry of Silly Walks

A Monty Python sketch where John Cleese plays a serious civil servant at a fictional government office dedicated to inventing and funding absurd, exaggerated walking styles, satirizing bureaucracy through deadpan dialogue and extreme physical comedy.

Walking piece
1973

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.

Walking piece
2014

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.

Walking piece
2000

Walking the Cabbage

Walking the Cabbage (2000–2025) by Han Bing is a social intervention in which he walks a Chinese cabbage on a leash through public spaces, using absurdist performance to question social norms, material values, and contemporary Chinese life.

Walking piece
2011

WalkSpace: Beirut-Venice

WalkSpace: Beirut-Venice is a participatory artwork connecting simultaneous dérives in Beirut and Venice. Groups in each city guide each other in real time via video, maps, and tweets, creating an evolving relational space shaped by exploration, interaction, and chance.

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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 […]

Ellen Mueller
Walking as Artistic Practice
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In which I go for a walk

In the second half of 2022, I responded to a call for an artist residency in the far north of Sweden. My proposal, a kind of sound walk, or audio-play, with individual components of the story triggered by the listener walking through geofenced areas in an outside space, perhaps a small forest, was to be …

Babak Fakhamzadeh•
walking – Babak Fakhamzadeh

squoil

To wear down a heel so that the boot or shoe is mis-shapen, as in “The heels on his boots were squoiled down.” from the Dictionary of Newfoundland English (University of Toronto Press, 1982).

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