Barcelona
Highlights
searching for an old home
A linear, recorded soundwalk documented through binaural field recording and GPS mapping (Strava). The piece captures a real-time walking performance through the streets of Barcelona, allowing the listener to experience it as an immersive sonic diary
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 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
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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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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.
Grand Tour Slow Train soundwalk
Grand Tour is a 250 km, three-week walk by multidisciplinary artists from the Ebro River Delta to Lleida, taking place from August 14 to September 1, 2019. The project concludes with participants boarding Catalonia's slowest train from Lleida to Barcelona, where they will create a moving sound map through recordings, walking choreography, and collaborative activities.
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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 →
• Mercury
The day you decide to drag your big camera to the sea at 6.50 a.m. to be there in time for the sunrise is always a cloudy day. But it doesn’t matter. The appearance of the sun is something to watch, the red and orange and pink that come with it on a cl...
Poetry
On my way to the beach I found a collection of poems for children, left next to a garbage container. Most of them written by well-known Catalan poets, some originally French or German and some very old ones without a known author. The poems describe th...
a soft armour