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Walking piece
2007

Mapa-Múndi/BR

Created by the artist during her driftings across Brazil, *Mapa-Múndi/Br* is a series of photographs of Brazilian signs that reference foreign continents, countries, regions, and cities.

Walking piece
2002

Crossing Surda (a record of going to and from work)

Crossing Surda by Emily Jacir documents her daily walk across the Surda checkpoint to Birzeit University, exposing military restrictions, violence, and the disrupted lifeline between Ramallah and surrounding villages.

Curated news 13 Apr, 2024

‘Thirsty, wet, desolate. The dream’: One Day author David Nicholls on the peculiar pleasure of long, soggy solo walks | Walking | The Guardian

The bestselling author has always hated being on his own, so why does he spend a few days every year hiking alone in the wind and rain? Just don’t call it a midlife crisis … Source: ‘Thirsty, wet, desolate. The dream’: One Day author David Nicholls on the peculiar pleasure of long, soggy solo walks

Curated news 28 Sep, 2022

Walking Solo – Lancaster Literature Festival

WALKING SOLO In 2020, for ‘Walking Solo’, Lancaster LitFest invited two locally based writers Polly Atkin and Jenn Ashworth to make a podcast each, based on a solo walk or walks taken in or around Lancaster. They have cre… Source: Walking Solo – Lancaster Literature Festival

Walking piece
1887

Walking Studies

Muybridge’s Walking Series captures human and animal gait step-by-step through rapid sequential photography, revealing movement with unprecedented precision and shaping early studies in biomechanics, art, and motion imagery (MUYBRIDGE, 1887).

Walking piece
1999

Walking Drawing

In Walking Drawing, Marioni attaches colored pencils to his waist and walks along a long paper, creating wavy, overlapping lines that transform simple movement into a performance-based drawing.

Walking piece
2002

Touch

In Touch, Janine Antoni walks a tightrope on the beach of her childhood home, creating the illusion of walking on water. The work explores balance, perfection, and connection with viewers, inviting reflection on hope, the horizon, and human striving.

Walking piece
2013

Pasajes IV

Pasajes IV continues Díaz Morales’ video series, linking disconnected spaces through a guiding character. Set in Patagonia, the work unites varied landscapes like puzzle pieces, exploring geography, movement, and the region’s present.

Walking piece
2020

Colour charts

The Colour Charts are created during colour walks where the artist collects pigments—gravel, dirt, dust, and bird droppings—from overlooked city places. Using watercolor, these collected traces form charts, mapping the city through experimental exploration.

Walking piece
2015

White Cane Amplified

White Cane Amplified is Carmen Papalia’s improvised work where he navigates a city using a megaphone instead of a cane, performing the social function of the white cane, asserting agency, and highlighting the challenges of communicating his needs.

Walking piece
2018

Field Study, Parramatta Road

Field Study, Parramatta Road traces ten-thousand-step walks along the corridor, using active listening and drawing to capture a direct, site-specific engagement with the shifting sensory and spatial conditions of the urban environment.

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.

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Walking pieces

Walking piece
2012

Cartas

Cartas is a work-in-progress featuring photographs of mailboxes found during walks in cities around the world.

Walking piece
2010

33 Days West

33 Days West is a series of photocopies from Foster Spragge’s original walking drawings. Each vertical strip represents a day’s walk, marking compass positions every 30 minutes, while the originals were mailed in nine envelopes from different stages of the walk.

Walking piece
2018

Walking Forward, Looking Back

Walking Forward, Looking Back follows Carol Maurer’s walk from Maryland to Pennsylvania, gathering stories and memories while reflecting on ancestry, history, and responsibility.

Sound walk
2010

Guide To Getting Lost

Guide to Getting Lost by Jennie Savage is a 30-min audio walk inviting participants to explore familiar spaces differently, blending real and fictional sounds. Walkers interpret directions uniquely, navigate at their own pace, and choose how closely to follow the guide.

Articles on WLC

Curated news 31 May, 2022

WalknTours launches it’s Juneau Alaska “The Last Frontier” Solo Walking Tour – EIN Presswire

Source: WalknTours launches it’s Juneau Alaska “The Last Frontier” Solo Walking Tour – EIN Presswire

Articles elsewhere

Walking as Artist... 95

Kristina Borg, The Cities Within (2016) Alternative DIY Walk – Vienna, Austria

Kristina Borg “In 2016, the methodology and practice outlined in the previous section (Alternative DIY Walks) resulted in the project The Cities Within. This walk was specific to the city of Vienna (Austria), precisely to the neighbourhoods of Leopoldstadt and Favoriten, the 2nd and the 10th districts respectively. This project was made possible as part […]

Ellen Mueller
Walking as Artist... 90

Mollie Rice, “Field Study, Parramatta Road” (2018)

“Mollie Rice explores human spatiality, and sensations of place, through an experimental drawing practice. Multiple visits to a particular site by the artist yield sound recordings, which are then translated into drawings in the studio, creating a complex connection between percpetion and place, action and experience. The works in this exhibition were created through a […]

Ellen Mueller
Walking Partner Arts 90

The River and the City

1st post since Covid-19 outbreak.

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guerrilla geography

Tactical, radical, creative, unusual and/or surprising geographies that challenge people to think differently about their relationships with places.

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