Italy
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Highlights
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.
Walking Art and Resistance at the 61st Venice Biennale: from Pussy Riot to the Holy See
Venice in May. Green water, muted light, the racketing of tourists’ wheeling luggage across damp stone. Now the Biennale has opened there are new sounds, sometimes protest chants, sometimes the footsteps of marchers. Or perhaps they are old sounds. Venice: a stage for spectacle and protest since the upheavals of 1968. The clamour of a
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The Holy See Pavilion Creates a Space to Slow Down and Experience Peace at Venice Biennale
The 61st La Biennale di Venezia, the Dicastery for Culture and Education of the Holy See Pavilion presents The Ear is the Eye of the Soul, Source: The Holy See Pavilion Creates a Space to Slow Down and Experience Peace at Venice Biennale
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Walking a liminal line
Terminalia, celebrated on February 23rd, is an ancient Roman festival honoring Terminus, the god of boundaries, marked by sacrifices at boundary stones instituted by King Numa Pompilius. This practice evolved into the English custom of Beating the Bounds and inspires contemporary boundary walks, such as the author’s 2020 walk along the sea-land boundary in Skagaströnd, Iceland.
• Walking pieces
Ted The Mole in the Touristed City
Before listening to it, please choose a place in your city that has been recently modified for the worse, becoming less human friendly and more hostile in its spatial design and architecture: here, there should start your audio walking experience.
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.
Articles on WLC
The valleys of the Dolomites: exploring Italy’s new network of wild trails | Travel | The Guardian
The Via delle Valli is a series of 50 trails aiming to tempt mountain-lovers away from the region’s hotspots and towards lesser-charted country Source: The valleys of the Dolomites: exploring Italy’s new network of wild trails | Travel | The Guardian
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Arts Playlist: Exploring the essence of urban life through ‘Walking in the City’ | Delaware First Media
Cities are more than just streets and buildings; they’re layered with movement, memory, and emotion. Artist Jennifer Small captures that energy in her latest exhibition ‘Walking in the City,’ which chronicles a single day in Venice, Italy, and is on view this month in Wilmington at the Carvel State Building’s Mezzanine Gallery.For this edition of
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Cinque Terre’s Path of Love reopens with charges to ease Insta-tourism | Italy | The Guardian
Visitors will need to pay up to €15 to stroll – and take photos – along romantic 900-metre walkway in Liguria, Italy Source: Cinque Terre’s Path of Love reopens with charges to ease Insta-tourism | Italy | The Guardian
• Articles elsewhere
The 61st Venice Biennale and the Feeling of Elsewhere
A Guide to In Minor Keys by GessoThere are cities that ask you to move quickly and there are cities that insist you surrender your sense of direction.Venice belongs to the second category.Nothing here unfolds in a straight line. You follow sound before...
Behind the scenes of “Listen To Your Mother”: Drawings & Projections
By Anabella Lenzu During my MFA at Wilson College, PA in Summer 2017, I started using drawings to leave vestiges of my body and my movements on paper, using crayons, chalk and pastels. Being a performance artist the remains of my dance have historically lived on as videos, photos, or simply in the memories of my spectators. […]
Territoire sonore au goutte à goutte
Desartsonnants décline, de variations en variations, ses écoutes et écritures de territoires liquides. Goutte à goutte Espaces eau-dit-eau Dessus – dessous hydrophoniques Émergence – immersion – résurgence Mots et sons humides Tensions-détentes, aller-retours marées Flux et scansions, fonds et émergences Paysages ondoyants Fragilités aquatiques matière aqua-sonifère Care sous perfusion Égouttements auriculaires Écoute à gouttes A […]
Events
Walking Between The Lines
We have 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. We are not great writers so appreciate those who can write a good story and engage with
• The Writer’s Path – following fact and fiction with Tim Parks
7pm GMT Tuesday 25 February How do master storytellers approach the act of walking in their writing? What are the subtle yet important differences between crafting a non-fiction travelogue and weaving walking into a fictional narrative? Our upcoming Walking Writers Salon delves into these questions. Our featured guest, Tim Parks, a writer with over forty
• Fiesole Urbana Ascolta (Listening Urban Fiesole)
The piece is a silent urban listening walk I will lead for a group of 15 people maximum in the ancient streets of Fiesole up the hill of Florence in Italy where I live and operate. The route includes outdoor public spaces such as hilly gardens, small squares, tiny streets, indoor areas such as the
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Elisabetta Senesi Web Site
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