tourism
Highlights
Excursions & DADA Tours: 1st Visit: Saint-Julien-le-Pauvre Church
An experimental 1921 Dada walk that mocked guided tours by leading participants to an ordinary Paris churchyard. Manifestos, absurd readings, and chance actions turned a banal site into anti-art, challenging tradition and redefining walking as perfor
Journey Lines: Making or Breaking Places
Journey Lines is a discussion betwen Anthropologist Tim Ingold and artist Claudia Zeiske reflecting on her Slow Coast 500 walk along the entire 700 miles long North Sea coast of Scotland. It reflects on making or breaking of places through tourism.
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Manhattan Passport – 7 Two Token Tours
In 1995, Richard Schechner's Manhattan Passport – 7 Two Token Tours invited New Yorkers to explore unfamiliar parts of the city. The tours recontextualized typical attractions with local gems, blending culture, history, and community in lively, offbeat excursions.
Spiral Jetty
Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty (1970) is a 1,500-foot-long earthwork made from 6,000 tons of basalt rock, winding into the Great Salt Lake. The spiral form reflects salt crystal deposits and explores themes of entropy, transformation, and the passage of time in the landscape.
The Pedway
The Chicago Pedway is a sprawling, illogical network of underground corridors spanning 40 downtown blocks. On the Trail of a Disorderly Future explored this space through walking tours, souvenirs, and a self-guided book, blending myth and history across 36 sites.
Walking pieces
Wordsworth Heritage
Wordsworth’s Heritage is a photographic work displayed as a billboard across 25 UK urban sites. Featuring William Wordsworth’s profile, it blends the iconic ‘Lake District’ with a group of contemporary Black walkers, challenging notions of history and heritage.
Slow Coast 500
Slow Coast 500 was a 1,200 km walk along Scotland’s east coast exploring tourism’s impact on communities and environments. Carrying and embroidering an orange tablecloth, I invited dialogue and reflection with coastal communities, ending with a walk, talk, and workshop at Art Walk Porty 2023.
• Machado’s River (The Rio de Janeiro of Machado de Assis)
In the heart of Rio de Janeiro, the life and work of Machado de Assis are revealed through 9 innovative audio experiences. City landmarks come to life to share their stories and connection with the author. A unique and immersive experience.
Articles on WLC
Articles elsewhere
From Birmingham to Knighton: Why Community Matters More Than Ever
Dan Carins A few weeks after moving from Birmingham to Knighton in Powys, my son and I walked from the town to neighbouring Presteigne and back along the Offa’s Dyke Path. In the mist and drizzle of the morning, the ancient earthwork guided our steps as we crossed fields and old drovers’ lanes as it […]
Samia El Khodary, Iftours (2022-)
Iftar is the meal eaten by Muslims after sunset during Ramadan. Iftours is a project led by a Cairo tour guide, Samia El Khodary, of the tour company Qahrawya. She gathered people for an iftar in 2022 and paired it with a walking tour of local contemporary art. She hopes to showcase works that break […]
Events
Happy tourists
“Find the horizon, and follow it < Tell a secret to a tree < Bring back a special cloud” “Find the end of the Earth < Create a landmark < Bring back some hope” “Happy tourists” is the first and unique travel agency inviting tourists to “get lost”. We believe that discovery is more about
