A participatory urban action by Paulo Bruscky invited the public to walk specific streets of Recife while reading any paper, shifting attention between page and city. On a sunny day, perception itself becomes the artwork—an exercise in seeing rather

Buenos Aires Tour begins with a pane of glass smashed onto a city map, its cracks forming eight arbitrary routes. Guided by chance, texts, recordings, and found objects create an intimate portrait where the historic and the everyday meet.

Ashes is built through drifting rather than narrative. Apichatpong lets images wander—daily routines, village walks, fleeting gestures—colliding with political protests in Thailand, creating a film shaped by memory, observation, and quiet resistance.

Trajects pendant un an d’une jeune fille du XVIe arrondissement maps one year of movements of a young woman studying political science, revealing a narrow triangular routine connecting her home, university, and piano teacher’s residence.

Walking to Save Some Sea documents Fran Crowe’s year-long response to ocean plastic pollution. Between 2006–07 she walked 200km of coastline, collecting 46,000 pieces of litter - one square mile’s worth—turning personal action into a call for collective responsibility.

William Anastasi’s Pocket Drawings are made by marking folded sheets in his pocket while walking, creating abstract traces of movement. Part of his “unsighted” practice, they explore chance, motion, and perception, translating physical experience into subtle visual forms.

Glowlab’s One Block Radius (2004) documented a Lower East Side block slated for the New Museum through walking tours, blogs, video, and interviews, creating a layered portrait of the area with perspectives from residents, workers, performers, and historians.

In I Walk from the South to the North (2017), Amanda Heng spent two months walking daily in Singapore, relying on strangers’ directions. The project explores chance encounters, urban speed, and differing perspectives on commuting and city life.

Footprints by Akira Kanayama is a walkable artwork of stenciled shoe prints on vinyl. Spectators walk on or alongside it, creating a “double walker” effect that links bodies, traces, and space, blending physical movement with imaginative engagement.

Michael x. Ryan’s Roadstain projects capture urban traces of stains on streets and sidewalks. Through large-scale wood reliefs and small drawings, he reimagines these marks, creating an archive of memory and place, sensitive to the built environment and human movement.