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Walking piece
2017

Readings – Relevés

Readings is a long-term walking-drawing practice in proximate interaction with Bonneau-Knight’s local environment.

Walking piece
2021

Circumambulation

Bound to an old larch tree by a single length of rope wound around each of us, we walked.

Malled: Deciphering Shopping in Canada

Kit Dobson
video 2010  

Elastic City

Elastic City engages the public in participatory walks, workshops, and performances that transform cities into sites of discovery. Artists use sensory techniques and rituals to explore community, identity, and the politics of urban life.

Happened
walk · listen · café  

Walking Arts & Health: Episode 1 – Walking Arts & Mental Health

Action Synergy & walk · listen · create
2025-10-28 19:00
Online

Through our new WALCAfé series, WALC invites you to explore how Walking Arts plays a vital role in well-being, both individually and collectively, physically and mentally.  Our first conversation will focus on Walking Arts and Mental Health. We are delighted to have with us four speakers who bring diverse insights from research, therapeutic practice, community

WALC
Happened
walk · listen · café  

Landscape and place – the act of touching and listening through walking

2021-07-14 18:00
Online

Artists and researchers will discuss how walking practices can establish deep and complex relationships in/from/to and with the territory.

Walking as a Question
Walking piece
2019

Great measurement – Grand mesurage

Great Measurement is a drawing method activated by walking, a 1:1 scale measuring device deployed in tandem.

Walking piece
2018

Marking – Marquer

This mark-making device traces a walked line on a scale of 1:1

Walking piece
2021

Boundary Surveys – Opérations cadastrales

Meditating on shared space, our boundary surveys in the living environment question the perception of land as a surface to be parcelled and possessed.

Walking piece
2019

corpstempslieu – Chemin de la rivière

Bonneau-Knight made this artwork to connect with an ancient path. Months spent learning about the place led to creating long, layered seismographic drawings made while walking, and a video work.

Walking piece Marŝarto25 Shortlisted
2025

40 Nights in Toronto

40 Nights in Toronto — An Ambient Documentary by Soda Paapi. Free Your mind and explore. What are you waiting for?

Walking piece
2006

Présomption de flânage

Exploration of the phenomenon of the occupation of public space by young people through portraits of teenagers and unusual places in Quebec City. The images are accompanied by a text scrolling on an electronic billboard that denounces a municipal regulation prohibiting strolling in public places. A "strolling permit" was distributed during the opening of the event.

Walking pieces

Sound walk SWS24
2024

Porter une marche

Porter une marche is a participatory artwork which seeks to connect two strangers through walking, using audio from recorded walks. While activating the artwork outdoors, the walker-wearer experiences ambient sounds of both walks so that the two are united across space and time.

Sound walk SWS24
2024

IÇI ET LÀ (Here and Now)

Ici et Là | Here and Now is an immersive audio installation that is experienced with the ECHOES sound mapping device for smartphone.

Walking piece Marŝarto23
2022

Vent Mapping

Vent Mapping is a series of audio and video recordings of vents in the Montreal neighbourhood I live in. The trajectory between vents, while walking, were traced and turned into a map. The recordings are played together as if a ventilating orchestra.

Sound walk
2021

Not Not a Room

They say smell is the quickest route to memory. Your walk, today, is as a future perfumer... Meet me at the Saint-Hubert exit of the Jean-Talon metro, just inside the doors.

Articles elsewhere

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Interview with François Morelli

As part of the release of the hardcover/ e-book 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 15th interview […]

Ellen Mueller
Ellen Mueller
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Points d’ouïe et Écoutoir Potentiel Imaginaire en chantier

2023 Desartsonnants, chantiers de choses en écoute, Écoutoir Potentiel Imaginaire en cours et à venir … – Début d’un nouveau … Plus

Gilles Malatray
POINTS D'OUÏE, PAYSAGES SONORES PARTAGÉS
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Les bottines souriantes

The path through the park presents a contrast to the city streets and sidewalks: it’s not covered in ice, or at least, not as much. I enjoyed being able to walk part of the way to work without being concerned about falling–or, rather, making a hard landing. It was hard to hear the chickadees and … Continue reading Les bottines souriantes →

breavman99
Reading and Walking
post 85

Fifty Walks: 19

Old Quebec City, QuebecI love this city, the age of it, the architecture, the French. Taking a break from a cross-country drive, needing to move my stiff legs and aching hip, I set out for a stroll. It's a magical place, and I was happy to be there. No matter how aimlessly you walk, all streets seem to lead to the Chateau Frontenac and the promenade overlooking the St. Lawrence River. I picked up speed along the Promenade des Gouverneurs boardwalk. In the distance a silver autumn light joined th [...]

Pedestrian Blog
pedestrian - Pedestrian Blog

pedestrian acts

By de Certeau: In “Walking in the City”, de Certeau conceives pedestrianism as a practice that is performed in the public space, whose architecture and behavioural habits substantially determine the way we walk. For de Certeau, the spatial order “organises an ensemble of possibilities (e.g. by a place in which one can move) and interdictions (e.g. by a wall that prevents one from going further)” and the walker “actualises some of these possibilities” by performing within its rules and limitations. “In that way,” says de Certeau, “he makes them exist as well as emerge.” Thus, pedestrians, as they walk conforming to the possibilities that are brought about by the spatial order of the city, constantly repeat and re-produce that spatial order, in a way ensuring its continuity. But, a pedestrian could also invent other possibilities. According to de Certeau, “the crossing, drifting away, or improvisation of walking privilege, transform or abandon spatial elements.” Hence, the pedestrians could, to a certain extent, elude the discipline of the spatial order of the city. Instead of repeating and re-producing the possibilities that are allowed, they can deviate, digress, drift away, depart, contravene, disrupt, subvert, or resist them. These acts, as he calls them, are pedestrian acts.

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