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Walking piece Marŝarto26
2026

Through Lisa e Maryam (لیسه مریم)

Inspired by daily walks through Kabul’s crowded Lisa e Maryam street, this painting shows the contrast between external urban chaos and the still, quiet thoughts inside every person’s mind.

Walking piece
2024

WOODS/WALKS

Rooted in walks through Wytham Woods, England, this series WALKS part of WOODS has developed from observations and conversations, exploring creativity, connection, memory, and environmental and political change.

Happened
walkingevent  

Peddars Way – A Walk with Tor Falcon

Museum of Walking
18 Feb, 2020
Online

Between the Fens to the west and the clay soils of eastern Norfolk, Breckland is a distinctive area of sandy soils that have undergone an intriguing history. Once open heathland it is now dominated by pine tree plantations and military training areas. Through this unique landscape, one of Britain’s lesser known pilgrimage routes follows a

Happened
walkingevent  

Audiowalk Visions of Kreenholm

Narva Art Residency
2026-09-06 09:30
Kreenholmi tn, Narva, Estonia

A meditative environmental audio walk by Miia Kettunen and Faershtein that uses sound and movement to reveal Kreenholm as both an industrial memory site and a living landscape shaped by water and time.

video 2025  

WALC Confluence 7 – in loving memory

Video recording of a Confluence introduced by Geert Vermeire, one of WALC’s co-artistic coordinators. The event came live from Guimarães in northern Portugal, where Babak Fakhamzadeh has been setting up a photographic exhibition called ‘in loving memory‘. Part psychogeographic, part interventionist, our urban explorer and Derive app-creator colleague, has been leaving his mark through cities

The Walking Body 6
WALC
post 31 May, 2025

Prespa as a community-based walking art project

The Prespa International Walking Arts Encounters 2025 Walking Home - Walking in Transition is this year’s culmination of a process that started in 2007. In that year several artists, scholars, and academics walked from Florina to Prespa in a walking process named Visual March to Prespes of 50 km that aimed to initiation of a process of discovery of the place, the community, and of ourselves

WAC25: Walking Home / Walking in Transition
video 2024  

Metamorphoses on the walking paths with Koen Broucke

Launching a new international series ‘Anna and the Verwandelingen’, a sequel to the successful editions of ‘Anna and the Field Reports’, before a live audience at the School of Gaasbeek in Belgium,  Anna Luyten chatted with historian, painter, performer, writer, pianist, doctor of arts, collector and walker Koen Broucke.  Koen walks lead him to unexpected encounters

WALC
Curated news 21 Feb, 2020

Grand Tour – An art walk of 200 km in Catalonia

      There are several stages during the art walk. In each one an artist or group of artists will share something with the visitors: music, dance, visual arts, poetry… Every day people walk about 15 to 25 kilometers along with an artist or a group of artists who have prepared something for them.

Walking piece
2023

WALKS/ Rio Segura

Walking drives this work. It explores connections between people, materials and the natural world, using movement through landscape to uncover relationships, encounters and a sense of place. It is a digital book printed by blurb.com

Walking piece
2011

Displacing territories: Project for the border Brazil/Uruguay

Displacing Territories: Project for the Brazil/Uruguay Border is a journey as a solitary traveler that the artist undertook at the end of April through the border zone of the pampas, specifically from Barra do Quaraí to Pelotas.

Walking piece Marŝarto25
2025

I AM A HUMAN SEISMOGRAPH

Presented at WAC 25, I AM A HUMAN SEISMOGRAPH encouraged Walkshop participants to develop their own codes and systems to generate walking drawings that document and celebrate sensorial attentiveness and presence in the world.

WAC25: Walking Home / Walking in Transition
Walking piece Marŝarto24 Shortlisted
2015

Billycan Project

An innovative walking art initiative that combines movement and visual art.

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Walking pieces

Walking piece Marŝarto24
2024

DOOR NOORD

Walking and Drawing A way to experience the richness of your environment and make contact with each other.

Walking piece
2020

Walk the Cloud

A series of parallel walks exploring the way from seclusion and destruction to playful movement and exchange under the open sky.

Sound walk
2019

ACA Soundscape Field Station at Canaveral National Seashore Artist in Residence 2019 Creative Contribution

This post introduces the first sound tour of Canaveral National Seashore, which guides listeners through diverse habitats and times of day, from dawn to night, capturing unique soundscapes of the barrier island environment. The sound recordings were created by Jack Hines, with post-production by Jack Hines and Dr. Bernie Krause, and are supported by the Atlantic Center for the Arts.

Sound walk SWS19
2019

Soundmarks

Soundmarks is a collaborative project by Rob St John and Rose Ferraby that uses sound and visual art to explore the sub-surface landscape of Aldborough Roman Town in North Yorkshire through an eight-site art trail. The project includes free online soundtracks, a digital and analogue map, an LP release, visual exhibitions, a seminar, and workshops, supported by Arts Council England and heritage partners.

Articles on WLC

Curated news 30 Sep, 2025

WALK DONT RUN brings over 100 local artists to downtown Seattle | The Seattle Times

The free community event is part of efforts to revitalize downtown, and will fill urban spaces with music, visual art and live performances. Source: WALK DONT RUN brings over 100 local artists to downtown Seattle | The Seattle Times

Curated news 20 Mar, 2020

The Brooklyn Rail magazine – MAR 2020 – about walking

The Brooklyn Rail is a journal committed to providing an independent forum for visual arts, culture, and politics throughout New York City and beyond. Suggested by contributor Julie Poitras Santos. Source: Critics Page – MAR 2020

Articles elsewhere

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Interview with Sophia New and Daniel Belasco Rogers

As part of the release of my book, Walking as Artistic Practice (pre-orders now open for softcover shipping in April!), I’m going to be publishing some brief interviews with the various artists, authors, researchers, creatives, collectives, and platforms whose art practice, written material, or other works I cite and mention. My 26th interview in this […]

Ellen Mueller
Ellen Mueller
post 90

Interview with Jaime Morse

As part of the release of the hardcover release of my book, Walking as Artistic Practice (softcover comes out in April!), I’m going to be publishing some brief interviews with the various artists, authors, researchers, creatives, collectives, and platforms whose art practice, written material, or other works I cite and mention. My 13th interview in […]

Ellen Mueller
Ellen Mueller
post 85

Let’s take a walk…I need you day # 7

To see the Art in Odd Places Blog entry with photos please click here Let's take a walk...I need you Let’s Take a Walk…I need youby Marie Christine Katzas  part of the 8th annual Art in Odd Places festival   &nbs...

Marie Christine Katz
Let's take a walk
post 85

Let’s take a walk… I need you

I am trilled to be one of the artists participating in Art in Odd Places  Curated by Edwin Ramoran. Joined by Guest Curators: Raquel de Anda, Christine Licata, Shaun J. Wright; Curatorial Coordinator, Lyra Monteiro; Assistants, C...

Marie Christine Katz
Let's take a walk

Events

Happened
walkingevent  

WALC Confluence 5 hosted by De School van Gaasbeek, featuring Publiek Park

de School van Gaasbeek
2024-11-25 18:30
Online

Anna Luyten introduces the Belgian nomadic contemporary art project Publiek Park, which explores public city parks and gardens as its exhibition grounds. The project invites both international and local artists to create artworks that draw inspiration from the surroundings in a site-sensitive manner. Walking is employed as a curatorial methodology to discover the parks with

WALC
Happened
walk · listen · café  

Political topography

2022-03-22 19:00
Online

“Political Topography” calls to mind expressions such as “political landscape”, ;“political climate”, and “the lay of the land”. It suggests the way in which the language of nature is used metaphorically to characterize or analyze a current cultural or political state of affairs. Join us for a discussion with curator and activist Nina Felshin exploring this fascinating topic.

Happened
walk · listen · café  

Pandemic walking

2021-07-17 18:00
Online

This cafe conversation centers on academic research and artistic practices that investigate the act of walking as shaped by pandemic conditions.

Walking as a Question

Links

walking drawing reflective practice Siobhán Potter

The Tumblr site of Siobhan Potter presents a diverse collection of photographic works and visual art exploring themes of movement, identity, and cultural narrative. The images often capture dynamic urban environments and intimate portraits, reflecting the artist’s interest in how individuals interact with and are shaped by their surroundings. The visual style emphasizes texture, light, and human presence, creating a dialogue between the subject and place. Throughout the archive, Potter’s work reveals an engagement with cultural geography, using walking and observation as modes of artistic inquiry. The collection includes series that document spontaneous encounters and constructed scenes, suggesting a layered understanding of place as both physical and experiential. Overall, the site functions as a visual journal that traces the intersections of personal and collective space through photography.
Personal websites

Stijn Dickel stijn dickel

The website showcases the work of Stijn Dickel, a photographer whose practice centers on the visual exploration of architectural and urban environments, particularly through the lens of everyday spaces often overlooked. The portfolio highlights a series of photographs that emphasize structure, light, and spatial relationships, reflecting an interest in the intersections between natural and constructed landscapes. Dickel’s images frequently capture moments of quietude and ambiguity, encouraging viewers to reconsider the built environment in nuanced ways. The site organizes the work into distinct projects, each presenting thematic investigations into various urban conditions and environments, from residential complexes to industrial sites. The photographic style is marked by careful composition, subdued color palettes, and attention to formal elements, supporting an analytical approach to the representation of contemporary spaces. Through these visual studies, the work aligns with broader discourses in cultural geography that address how space, place, and architecture shape human experience and perception.
Personal websites

SLQS Studio

SLQ Studio is a digital platform dedicated to documenting and exploring Queensland’s cultural heritage through a combination of archival materials, oral histories, and visual arts. It serves as a repository and creative space that highlights the diversity of Queensland’s communities, focusing on stories and artworks that reflect the region's social and historical landscapes. The studio emphasizes community engagement, featuring collaborations with local artists, historians, and cultural organizations to preserve and present multifaceted narratives. The website showcases various projects that intersect art, history, and place, often employing multimedia elements such as video interviews, photographic collections, and interactive exhibitions. By prioritizing place-based storytelling, SLQ Studio contributes to a deeper understanding of Queensland’s cultural geography, illuminating how local identities and environments have been shaped and expressed over time. This platform positions itself as a resource for researchers, educators, and the public interested in the arts and cultural histories of Queensland.
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scrawl

To move slowly or with difficulty; to walk in a clumsy, awkward manner. from the Dictionary of Newfoundland English (University of Toronto Press, 1982).

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