Amsterdam
Highlights
Een vrouwelijk geluid /A Woman’s Voice
‘A Woman’s Voice’ is a mosaic of sounds, conversations, and music about the experiences and lives of fifteen women from 19-91 years who live in the South of Amsterdam. It's a feminist audiowalk and a portrait of a neighborhood through women's eyes.
DOOR NOORD
Liesje vd Berk invites residents to explore their surroundings in a unique way: by walking and drawing with all their senses. At the end of each walk, participants share one of their drawings in an exhibition, creating a new map of Amsterdam North.
Avian Humanoids
Avian Humanoids, a production by composer, producer, and performer Evelien van den Broek, is a soundwalk that transports you to the world of mythological creatures, uncanny sounds, and musical fantasies. You walk from tree to tree, to five unique trees in Oosterpark, Amsterdam (NL). As soon as you stand beneath them, the tree comes to life, and you hear the rustling of leaves and the fluttering of wings. This isn’t just any park; these aren’t just any trees. Here live the Avian Humanoids. Part human, part bird. In their tree, they begin to sing. As they sit above you and fly around you, you listen to their song.
Mars door Amsterdam
Unwary pedestrians, tram passengers, and motorists look on in surprise when they see a spectacle rolling through the center of Amsterdam. In the “March through Amsterdam” that took place on Friday, December 6, 1963, but the march did not have a demonstrative character; it is nothing more than a formation of six gentlemen who are apparently deliberately following a route.
Beneath the Dreaming Spires
Five years in the making, A Certain Logic of Expectations is a surprising, intriguing photo narrative of a well-known university-dominated city, created by Mexican photographer Arturo Soto. Soto studied at Oxford as a doctoral student, traversing the city incognito, capturing the quirkiness of British suburbia, a counter-narrative to the tourism blurbs that often quote Victorian
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Interview with Esther Polak
As part of the release of my book, Walking as Artistic Practice (pre-orders now open for softcover shipping 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 25th interview in this […]
Next steps (a walk to the COP 26, 2020)
“Some people would rather have wings but we don’t, we have feet. We were born to walk. Scientists say that walking gave us our brain capacity, walking turned us into the human beings we are. Walking made it possible for us to have the desire to fly and...
Old and new connections
An old story. Because the world is in turmoil, is always in turmoil and inbetween all the sad things that are happening everywhere it is important to remember that there are just as many, or maybe even more, beautiful things happening. Often it is i...
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