Paris
Highlights
Mnémosyne. Paris → Nafplio, 100 days on foot
One hundred days on foot, Paris to Nafplio. The heartbeat replaces the kilometre as the unit of measurement. Each day yields one sealed Cardio-Cartography. On 5 November 2026, ten minutes of restitution at the University of the Peloponnese.
A Metre of Blue: Mnemosyne and the Art of Distilling a Walk
It was around five in the morning on the shores of Lake Prespa in Northern Greece when I first encountered Ridha Dhib: a figure moving slowly along the water’s edge, a walking stick in hand, conversing with a strange, synthetic voice coming from a small red speaker clipped to his hip. The lake was still,
• Suite Vénitienne (Venetian Suite)
Suite Vénitienne is a series of photographs and diaristic texts documeting Sophie Calle’s surveillance of Henry B, a man she does not know and has no particular reason to follow. An investigation on her own psychological projections and emotions while building a fictional construct around her subject.
Flaneurs, Fascists, and People Smugglers (Small Boats, Long Walks)
What goes on at Europe's borders, out of sight and out of mind? Simon Cole always loved the film Casablanca. Then 2020s life began to imitate 1940s art. Let's tease out treasure from the corridors of historical uncertainty.
Walking as political resistance: From May 1968 to contemporary marches
Walking has long served as a potent form of political expression, transforming the simple act of moving through public spaces into a declaration of dissent, solidarity, and hope. From the revolutionary fervor of May 1968 in Paris to the contemporary global marches advocating for workers' rights and protesting state abuses, walking remains an enduring symbol of collective resistance against systemic injustices.
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• Sunrise Walks – Augmented Topography
Sunrise Walks – Augmented Topography is a walking performance and experimental archive. Three sunrise photos taken in Paris, enhanced with augmented reality data, question the relationship between light, the celestial cycle, and the body's inscription within space.
Walking pieces
Let’s go flanery
This paper examines the concept of the female* flaneuse in both theory and practice, highlighting how women’s urban walking challenges the traditionally male-centric flanery through a transgressive and feminist spatial claim. It also explores the author’s performative research on how flanery can reshape cities mentally and physically by emphasizing embodied and emancipatory practices.
Where do we go from here?
"Where Do We Go From Here?" is a walking art project developed by Claire Alice Thill in 2017 during her residency at Fondation Biermans Lapôtre in Paris, featuring site-specific itineraries around the city. The project combines recorded interviews, original soundscapes by composer Georg Brenner, and curated walking routes to explore walking as a cultural and social act while enabling participants to experience Paris through the voices and perspectives of its inhabitants.
Articles on WLC
Why Didn’t You Fly
Why didn’t you fly, my boyfriend replied (with a crying face emoji). It was a Thursday evening in late February, and I’d messaged to say I was already feeling sleepy despite having another train journey – of three hours – to embark on once I arrived by Eurostar in Paris. He asked me this before,
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Walking Statues
Ever since a school trip to Paris, which included a visit to the Auguste Rodin Museum, I’ve been struck by his sculpture called The Burgers of Calais that commemorates an event during the Hundred Years War. The original piece was commissioned by the Calais municipality, and was erected on a pedestal in front of the
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Articles elsewhere
I Want To Go To Togo, Ghana, Togo
We all know that a happy combination of luck, aggression, predestination and geography causes the base meridian of longitude to go through Greenwich. In earlier times there were several others: Paris, Copenhagen and Berlin all had "their" meridians b...
Events
Keep Walking Intently
Meet the authors who are writing about walking and the landscapes through which we walk, at Walking Writers Salons. We are delighted to welcome art critic and historian Lori Waxman who will be talking with Babak Fakhamzadeh about her book Keep Walking Intently, a seminal history of walking art in the Twentieth century. Lead art critic
• Sounds Wild and Broken with author David G. Haskell
Meet the authors who are writing about walking and the landscapes through which we walk, at walk · listen · create’s Walking Writers Salons. We are delighted to have biologist and award-winning nature writer David George Haskell join us in October, talking about “Sounds Wild and Broken: Sonic marvels, Evolution's Creativity and the Crisis of Sensory Extinction" in which he explores the origins of song, music and speech across all species.
• IYS2020 Sound Walk
Sound walk around the streets of Paris. Commencing at the foot of Tour Zamansky with the first sounds being those of the University plus the sound installation especially installed at the top of the Tour for the Opening of the International Year of Sound. Sound walk may be cancelled if weather is particularly bad in
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