“Research Residency Program” gives opportunities to conduct research on arts and culture in the city of Tokyo, targeting both international and local creators in a wide range of fields. Source: Open Call for the Research Residency Program 2027 ｜ Open Call ｜ Archives ｜ Tokyo Arts and Space

This year is the biennale’s most ambitious yet, with 39 participating artists from Japan and abroad creating under the theme “Wander for Wonder.” Source: Tokyo Biennale hides the art in plain sight – The Japan Times

The tours that I tend to write about tend to be about something. That is to say, they have a subject, a route, a way of navigating you along it and something to impart along the way. That's pretty standard. There is, however, another angle I haven't pa...

Walk Japan Launches New East Hokkaido Walking Tour by The Arts Shelf Source: Walk Japan Launches New East Hokkaido Walking Tour – The Arts Shelf

As part of the release of the hardcover 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 seventh interview in […]

Shinya Ide and Shion Ito walk alpacas Akane and Satsuki in the early morning in Tokyo. The couple operate an indoor petting zoo, Alpaca Land. The woolly natives of South America spend time with visitors who pay 1,000 yen for 30 minutes petting them, hugging them and burying faces in their… Source: Walking their alpacas

Dear Friend, I am writing to extend my immense gratitude for your support of Anabella Lenzu/DanceDrama over these last 16 years! 2022 was generous and exciting year, transitioning from an online presence to in-person classes, workshops, and performances. With my husband Todd Carroll, we have been collaborating non-stop from one project to the next, and […]

Are you up for a vicarious walk across Japan starting tonight? Craig Mod – writer of Roden and Ridgeline newsletters – is inviting people to join him on his durational walk 500km from Tokyo to Kyoto. It starts when he turns 40 at midnight tonight and he will walk daily until the end of November. […]

The act of walking was one that Saigyo, Basho and Matsuo turned into poetry. Source: A thousand years of walking through Japan | The Japan Times

Stuart Horodner, then at the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art in Oregon and now at the Singleton Center for the Arts in Lexington, Kentucky, curated a 2002 exhibition on walking art, Walk Ways, which travelled to, among other places, the Dalhousie Art Gallery in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and the Oakville Galleries, in Oakville. It’s possible […]

Looking down over Hirasawa post town, Nagano Prefecture. Photo by Craig Mod.   My friend Geoff Travers sent me a link to Craig Mod’s discussion of his 620-mile walk along Japan’s “Nakasendo,” or “inner mountain route,” one of the longest historical walks in that country. I’ve been thinking about that article for a couple of […]

The third and last of the journeys I took using the gamebook Engeki Quest was the route titled Invitation From Far Away. I was instructed to start at this ship.Having already completed two of the routes I was familiar with the format and had found...