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Border Correspondence
Among the Hannah Arendt Papers at the Library of Congress in Washington is a small collection of coloured envelopes once addressed to Walter Benjamin. They were sent to 10 rue Dombasle, Paris. Orange, yellow, pale blue. Today they are empty, but their surfaces are covered in tiny handwriting: corrected sentences, crossings-out, additions. Benjamin had reused
• WALC Confluence 13 – When art takes to the road
Conceived by Clara Gari over the last twelve years, El Grand Tour has explored what happens when art leaves the exhibition hall, the stage or the auditorium and takes to the road. Clara Gari invites you to Grand Tour 2026. “In 2026, we return to three territories that have marked us deeply: the Eastern Pyrenees,
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After the Walk
Made of Walking Prosperpolder and the Future of Walking Arts TThe expression walking arts has become surprisingly familiar. Over the past two decades, it has entered conferences, publications, festivals, university programmes and European projects, bringing together practices that had previously remained dispersed across different artistic and disciplinary traditions.Yet the more familiar the expression has become,
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Following Walter Benjamin
The Contemporary Creation Centre Nau Côclea and the Museu Memorial de l’Exili (Exile Memorial Museum) invite artists to apply for the Walter Benjamin Creation Grant 2026. For thirteen years, the Walter Benjamin Route has invited artists to engage with questions of memory, borders, exile, critical history and the act of walking itself. Artists are asked
• Walking the questions
A 40 day performative walk through northern Spain, wearing a business suit embroidered with other peoples’ question in order to live (into) them, listening to human and none-human beings, making connections, finding and creating new stories.
Walking pieces
El Grand Tour 2023
This is a work shaped out of binaural recordings (please listen with closed headphones or quality earbuds to hear the immersive sound) made by me during a 3-week hike through the landscape of Aragon (Spain) starting from Pont de Suert to Sant Esteve de la Sarga. A group of artists walked all through the pre-Pyrenees,
The Temple of Hermes
The Temple of Hermes: you are honoured: few are allowed to enter, and none leave unaltered, for he is a mercurial god. Satsymph have laid out his Temple in Girona, and your smartphone is your sole means of access.
Take Flight
The audience follows two female performance artists’ verbalized, internal processes while they perform the act of walking in South African cities. Encouraging the contemplation of the meeting between the private and the public sphere.
Conferencia en plaza de Antonio Loredo – 1° de mayo 1886 – 1907
This post discusses the 1907 Montevideo anarchist publication "En Marcha" and highlights Antonio Loredo, a revolutionary barber and teacher involved in early 20th-century anarchist movements in Buenos Aires, Montevideo, and Barcelona. It recommends engaging with his speeches by imaginatively walking through urban spaces, connecting historical injustices with ongoing political passion.
Articles on WLC
GrandTourists of the 21st Century. A 300km participatory art walk
In August 2025, a group of walkers set out on foot from Barcelona to Ogassa in the Spanish Pyrenees, eventually carrying a cello to the summit of the Taga, a mountain peak rising above 2,000 metres. This was the 11th edition of the GrandTour, a three-week walk that participants undertake alongside artists from different disciplines,
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The Walking Assembly 2026
The Walking Assembly 2026 (9–13 May 2026) is a nomadic, field-based gathering in Catalonia for artists, researchers, educators, and collectives exploring walking as embodied, relational, and ecological knowledge. Moving from conference to assembly, it proposes learning without teaching, where knowledge emerges through shared walking, presence, and collective experience. From Salt to Albanyà and along the Muga River, the Assembly foregrounds water, movement, attention, walking and being together in place as pedagogical forces.
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Articles elsewhere
Dani Karavan, “Passatjes,” Portbou, Spain
Dani Karavan’s memorial to the philosopher Walter Benjamin, Passatjes, has been here in Portbou since 1994. Benjamin died here in 1940. Although he had a safe conduct pass that should’ve allowed him to cross Spain and enter Portugal, the police refused him entry. Because he was in poor health, he was allowed to remain in … Continue reading Dani Karavan, “Passatjes,” Portbou, Spain →
• La Sagrada Familia and 24. Gillian Jerome, Nevertheless: Walking Poems
Here’s something new: a walk paired with a book. I’ve never done this before. La Familia Sagrada: does that count as a walk? Does it matter? I walked there; I walked around while I was there, listening to the audio guide; I’ll be walking back. Good enough for me. What an incredible cathedral; what a … Continue reading La Sagrada Familia and 24. Gillian Jerome, Nevertheless: Walking Poems →
• In an attempt to cross borders
An important reason for this trip halfway around the world was for me to stop in the tiny village of Camallera, in northern Catalunya, for a three day meeting connected to a European collaborative project which the NGO I co-founded is involved in. Here, the bakery only opens at 9am, everyone greets each other on …
• Events
Walking Arts & Health: Episode 1 – Walking Arts & Mental Health
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
+2 Slow and Steady
The Marŝarto Awards complement our Sound Walk September Awards providing a cash prize incentive to artists to submit their compositions for the only award for walking art. Entering its third year, we want to celebrate the winner and honourable mention from the previous year, and are delighted that Tamsin Grainger (winner) and Marie-Anne Lerjen (honourable
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Confluence 2 hosted by Nau Côclea
Do you like to travel on foot? Grand Tour is a 250km walk with poets, dancers, storytellers, visual artists and musicians. 21 days across beautiful landscape and hidden places in Catalonia, it is a shared celebration and this year, you can be part of it.
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a soft armour