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Featured collection

Walking

1064 items 75 sub-collections
Walking piece
New 2012

Black Walks

**Black Walks** is an ongoing performance project using a black flag to explore identity, belonging, and visibility. Through walks in cities across Europe and Asia, it questions nationalism and citizenship, inviting reflection through embodied action

Walking piece
New 2014

Creative thinking, meditative walking and mindfulness through movement

Walking brings many benefits including helping people to ‘clear their heads’ and take time to think, contemplate and meditate. Andrew Stuck at the Museum of Walking has been bringing together the skills of experts in creativity, meditation, mindfulness and yoga practice, and applying these to our own walking practice. Working with Mel Sutton, homeopath, yoga teacher,

Happened
 

Somatic walking arts for women in SE London

2026-06-12 09:30
Peckham Rye Park & Common, 34 Straker's Rd, London SE15 3UA, UK

Women who would like to explore an emerging walking arts practice are invited to participate in 1-hour to 90-minute somatic strolls + reflection (15 - 30 mins) with walking artist Tiana Harper.

Happened
 

Welcome to the Lichen Museum

Catalyst Arts, Belfast
2026-06-11 17:00
6 Joy's Entry, Belfast, UK

Welcome to the Lichen Museum -A lichen walk with A. Laurie Palmer June 11, 17:00 Catalyst Arts, Belfast 6 Joy’s Entry Belfast BT1 4DR https://www.eventbrite.com/e/welcome-to-the-lichen-museum-guided-walk-with-a-laurie-palmer-tickets-1990360830824?a

Featured New 12 Jun, 2026

Villefagnan: May, 2026

We arrived in the flatlands of the Charente in the last days of May, carrying laptops, agendas, PowerPoints about our deliverables, European acronyms and all the fragile optimism required to believe that human beings from five countries can agree on anything. It was a heatwave. Our nostrils tingled with the whiff of ammonia rising from

Australian Walking Artists 24/25

Molly Wagner
New 2014  

Thinking in Motion

Video recording of a talk that introduces WALKING, a symposium exploring practices of walking as modes of perception, spatial inquiry, and collective reflection. Situated in relation to Lucius Burckhardt’s Spaziergangswissenschaft, WALKING brings together positions from landscape architecture, art, research, and curatorial practice to examine how environments are read, constructed, and contested through movement. The presentation

WALC Course
WALC

Walk Notations

Eirini Fountedaki
Curated news New 09 Jun, 2026

I got AI to plan my holiday – then local guides ripped apart its suggestions

The appeal of getting a free, quick, well-structured travel plan is easy to see, and something that is causing travel agents another Covid-sized thing to worry about. But does AI really have the answers for urban explorers? Source: I got AI to plan my holiday – then local guides ripped apart its suggestions – The

New 2026  

Collective Memory Walking (WALC Online course Session 7)

“Collective Memory Walking” four approaches by Katerina Pistola, Stefania Veldemiri, Nikos Theodoropoulos and Kórinna Latélis

WALC
Walking piece
Marŝarto26 New 2026

Meander in Blue

A creative moonlit wander through the streets of Ballarat as part of Ballarat Craft & Design Week.

Happened
 

7 + 7 PLACES #3 (towards WAC 27)

University of Western Macedonia / Visual march to Prespa
2026-02-11 18:00
Online

The Third Online Meeting for the 7 + 7 Places project will take place on Wednesday, February 11th2026, 20:00 EET (19:00 CET). During the two previous meetings we touched upon various approaches to the Place of Prespes and discussed six different walkshops that unfolded in Prespes as part of the International Encounters 2025 (WAC). In

WAC25: Walking Home / Walking in Transition
WALC
Featured collection

psychogeography

305 items 8 sub-collections
Walking piece
New 2018

Between the Lines

Andrew Stuck has a fascination with writers who draw from place.  It is probably something to do with the fact that as walkers, we are out carving our way through space and experiencing places, one step at a time.  Andrew doesn’t count himself as a great writer so really appreciates those who can write a

Walking piece
Marŝarto26 New 2026

Cool Vienna

Vienna is a wonderful subject for a deck of Dérive app task cards, and so, we now have a deck for Vienna.

Happened
Walking Writers Salon  

Because the streets belong to everyone

2026-02-10 19:00
Online

Morag Rose, author of the widely acclaimed The Feminist Art of Walking will be joined in conversation with author and poet  Polly Atkin for our first Walking Writers Salon on 2026. For over 20 years Morag Rose has been seeking company, undertaking a wide range of explorative wanders on foot through her home city of

From Hill to Sea: Dispatches from the Fife Psychogeographical Collective, 2010 – 2014

Murdo Eason

Walk Notations

Eirini Fountedaki
Curated news New 15 Jun, 2026

Book review: Real Wrexham: Becoming the City by Sara Erddig

Desmond Clifford The “Real Series” is among the success stories of modern Welsh publishing – quite an accolade in a notoriously fickle and difficult trade. The original inspiration came from John Barnie, then editor of Planet. Mid-way through an unprecedented economic boom in the late 90s he noticed major change underway in fin-de-siecle Cardiff and

Curated news New 13 Jun, 2026

Play ‘Liminal Bingo,’ Pat Perry’s Participatory Photo Treasure Hunt — Colossal

Pat Perry recently launched “Liminal Bingo,” a communal photo hunt that asks participants to snap images of the mundane and quirky. Source: Play ‘Liminal Bingo,’ Pat Perry’s Participatory Photo Treasure Hunt — Colossal

New 2026  

WALC Cafe Walk Notations: A book as a trace

Walk Notations is a new publication (February, 2026) that brings together traces emerging from Dissident Paths: Walking Together as a Method, a series of artistic walks across Berlin in 2025, a curatorial collaboration between initiatives ReRouting and Cruising Curators for nGbK, Berlin. Moving between artistic practices, curatorial conversations, and reflections, the book approaches walking as a method for being together in

WALC
New 2026  

On the Road to Nowhere – Walking Writers Salon with Ken Wilson

Ken Wilson’s singular experience of walking alongside the decidedly pedestrian-unfriendly Regina Bypass, all while situating the highway within the ongoing history of settler colonialism in southern Saskatchewan, Canada. In conversation with Andrew Stuck, they discuss his new book Walking the Bypass – notes on place from the side of the road.

Happened
 

WALC Online Course Session 9 – Art of Mapping and Counter-Mapping

2026-05-23 07:30
Online

Focusing on maps as artistic and cultural tools, the session analyses how mapping and counter-mapping shape perception, experience and power.

WALC Course
WALC
Walking piece
Marŝarto26 New 2026

Cagliari in layers

Cagliari, a port, and built on a raised plateau, with lots of history, attractive to tourists, but not (yet?) overrun by them, is very well suited for exploration.

Walking the Bypass – notes on places from the side of the road

Ken Wilson
Featured collection

performance

384 items 12 sub-collections
Walking piece
Marŝarto26 New 2026

Meander in Blue

A creative moonlit wander through the streets of Ballarat as part of Ballarat Craft & Design Week.

Walking piece
Marŝarto26 New 2026

Framed

A small work i made on one of my walks, using some blossoming flowers collected there. I wanted to emphasise the beauty of the chestnuttree using it’s surounding area.

Featured New 08 Jun, 2026

Big Sky Country, Walking Art

A few years ago, a group of Australian walking artists came together to form the appropriately named Australian Walking Artists. Going from strength to strength, they recently published a book, Australian Walking Artists, Volume 1 24/25, highlighting work by the members of their organisation. One of the group’s founders, and president, Molly Wagner, wrote an

New 2026  

FOOTNOTES

FOOTNOTES is an immersive multi-media puppetry performance created, designed and directed by Theodora Skipitares with Music and Lyrics by Sxip Shirey.

New 22 May, 2026

Submissions – Performativity(ies) of Memory(ies) Interdisciplinary Conference 2026

Abstract submission deadline 15 July 2026 Recommended topics: Shared memory of experiences and knowledge Participatory research and practice as testimony of (the) memory Community-generated memory … Source: Submissions – Performativity(ies) of Memory(ies) Interdisciplinary Conference 2026

2007  

C.L.U.E. (color location ultimate experience)

C.L.U.E. (color location ultimate experience) is a multimedia work by A.L. Steiner, robbinschilds, and collaborators, blending video, installation, and performance. The piece explores color, space, and human interaction through dynamic single to 13-channel video formats.

Free
New  

MAY BE ON THE MOORS: THE EXHIBITION

Neil Greenhalgh and Altogether Otherwise
3 - 5 Jul, 2026
Altogether Otherwise, Hanover Street, Manchester, UK

Expect to see drawings, photographic prints, sound pieces, and artefacts made during the collaborative series of walks MAY BE ON THE MOORS.

Keep Walking Intently: The Ambulatory Art of the Surrealists, the Situationist International, and Fluxus

Lori Waxman

Walking Stumbling Limping Falling: A conversation

Phil Smith
Happened
 

WALC Confluence 12 – 1- WALC course program presentation – 2- El laboratorio, a Migrating voices Franco-Chilean-Mexican exploration

Gigacircus
2026-02-02 17:00
Online

During a thirty-minute experimental *Laboratorio*, artists will experiment with a live performance using rudimentary audiovisual tools and raw materials, far from the giants of the Internet.

WALC
Walking piece
New 2018

Gallery Go

Walking through the streets of Jinze, Shanghai, Anne Mølleskov wore a canvas dress transformed into a mobile gallery of forest photographs, creating a transient, autonomous art platform that moved freely through public space.

Walking piece
Marŝarto26 2026

Animal Parade

Wearing “animal-track” Shoe covers, we walked through a snowy city, marking the white streets with various animal footprints. In this animal-like manner, we have temporarily reclaimed the urban territory, leaving behind a trail of puzzles and reverie.

Featured collection

listening

181 items 8 sub-collections
Sound walk
New 2016

El Silencio No Existe

Vocal work presented at CONECTA 05 - Interdisciplinary film exhibition + National Documentary Network in 2016 40 years after the last military coup, El Cairo Cinema, Rosario.

Sound walk
2002

[murmur]

[murmur] is a documentary oral history project that records stories and memories told about specific geographic locations.

Listening as a Shared and Social Practice

Lindsey French
Happened
 

Suspended Until I Return: Site-specific walk exploring language and movement

https://interfaceinagh.com/
2025-09-20 12:00
Cloonnacartan, County Galway, H91 VW58, Ireland

Site-specific walk exploring language & movement 🗓️ 20 September 2025, 1-2pm 📍 Interface Inagh, Recess (H91 VW58)

Happened
SWS23  

Tapping into the City: Group Walk – Elephant & Castle

2023-09-17 14:00
Castle Square, Elephant Road, London SE17 1EU, UK

A group walk exploring the changing face of Elephant & Castle. We'll walk together for an hour or so, moving as one through the city space, listening to its sound and the sound of our feet.

Featured SWS25 11 Dec, 2025

Sounds of Home

Galen Koch, with Celia Morton and Annika Ross, created The First Coast’s Stonington Soundwalk, taking the listener on a walk past old sardine factories and music halls, neighborhoods and town piers, featuring the stories of local residents, both past and present. This work is one of the shortlisted pieces for the Sound Walk September Awards 2025. Below, Galen reflects on

Going Out – Walking, Listening, Soundmaking

Elena Biserna
Featured 06 Nov, 2025

Between Silence and Machinery: Re-imagining Moshi Through Sound and Story

From 28 July to 5 August 2025, Project AfDevLives organized Sound–Place–Storytelling, a training workshop on sound-based approaches to qualitative research.

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
SWS26 2024

Lisan: Tongue

An interactive theatrical experience of walking with a twelve-year-old girl as your daughter along the Dubai creek, leading you through contrasting natural and urban landscapes – bringing to light the many lives of the creek and the stories of its human and more-than-human inhabitants.

Sound walk
SWS26 2025

(In)Audible Bodies

The artistic research project (In)Audible Bodies of Irini Kalogeopoulou is a soundwalk that took place in Psarades (WAC 25) investigating the concept of silence through an embodied listening and relational experience.

WAC25: Walking Home / Walking in Transition
Walking piece
SWS26 2025

Beaches of Bonneveine

This soundscape is more than a collection of sounds, it is a woven fabric of connection.

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