Switzerland
Highlights
Drawing Cartographies of Perception
This walkshop explores the personal and subjective nature of navigation and cartography and the diverse ways people perceive and move through space, using the acts of walking and drawing as primary methods of investigation.
• Weather Walk
In October 2024, I spent four weeks as an artist in residence in rural Switzerland. I faced the weather on the same route (almost) every day. Based on the residency’s explorations I wrote a script to host a Weather Walk (Zurich/Psarades).
• HUB Zürich
The HUB wants to bring together a group of people in Zurich who will participate, follow the discussions and do the proposed walks together and share their experiences. Apart from that the HUB in Zurich proposes the walkshop “walking in(out)doors” for the encounters/conference, that focuses on visible and invisible “doors” to rethink accessibility.
• 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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WALKING – Thinking in Motion.
Lucius Burckhardt and the Future of Perception Open call deadline: 8 August 2025: https://ilea.art/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Call-for-Participation-DE.pdf (in German) Symposium + WalkshopsSeptember 5–7, 2025 Berghotel Alpenblick, Tenna, Safiental (CH) + hybrid A transdisciplinary symposium on walking as an artistic practice, spatial experience, and epistemic method in the spirit of Lucius Burckhardt. 2025 marks the 100th anniversary of Lucius Burckhardt,
• Aimless walking, an iPhone Pietà and a huge gargoyle: Art Basel is here to help you find happiness | Euronews
After last years online edition, Art Basel is back in the real world for September 2021. And it starts with a Parcours event. Source: Aimless walking, an iPhone Pietà and a huge gargoyle: Art Basel is here to help you find happiness | Euronews
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Hero with 7 Faces
Seven archetypes mapped out on Zurich’s Old Town Additional story by Rebecca Horrox The Hero begins a personal journey that will lead to you through the city. The work conjures seven archetypes of the creative consciousness mapped out in a surreal 30min walk. Using immersive sound design, narrative and image to imbue the listener into
Walking pieces
A Wooden Floor Walk
The ‘Wooden Floor Walk’ took place on 23 August 2024 in a large group house on the edge of the forest in Biel/Bienne (Switzerland). The house is largely made of wood. 18 participants crossed the room very slowly (15 minutes). A wooden floor sound piece was created.
• September: Sound Walking Experiments in Haecceity and Allography
In September 2020, a series of soundwalking experiments will explore the tension between immediate, site-specific experience (haecceity) and mediated or recorded representations (allography) through DIY devices that capture and transform walkers' sounds and biophysical data. These experiments, conducted across Tyneside, East Anglia, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and France, aim to generate a multimedia corpus culminating in a streamed improvised radio performance and documented via a dedicated website.
Articles on WLC
‘Like walking through time’: as glaciers retreat, new worlds are being created in their wake | Glaciers | The Guardian
As Swiss glaciers melt at an ever-faster rate, new species move in and flourish, but entire ecosystems and an alpine culture can be lost Source: ‘Like walking through time’: as glaciers retreat, new worlds are being created in their wake | Glaciers | The Guardian
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Trekking Across Switzerland, Guided by Locals’ Hand-Drawn Maps – The New York Times
Nostalgic for a time before ubiquitous connectivity, a writer ditched his phone and relied instead on serendipity — and maps made by people he met along the way. Source: Trekking Across Switzerland, Guided by Locals’ Hand-Drawn Maps – The New York Times
• Articles elsewhere
Künste im Gespräch geht spazieren
Das gemächliche Schlendern ohne bestimmtes Ziel ist eine Kulturtechnik mit Geschichte. Wie der Spaziergang die Literatur prägt, die Wahrnehmung verändert und warum spazieren auch zur Wissenschaft taugt, dem geht die Sendung „Künste im Gespräch” d...
Das Spazierbüro • Ein Festival
Herrreinspaziert! – lerjentours, die Agentur für Gehkultur, lädt auf dem Werdmühleplatz in Zürich ins «Spazierbüro». Anleitungen, Anregungen, Walks und Gespräche zu Spazierkunst und zur Kunst des Spazierens. Dabei sind die Spazierkünstlerin Simone Ette...
Rote Köpfe im Establishment
Das Schweizer Radio SRF2 veröffentlichte ein Interview mit Markus Ritter, der sich um den Nachlass von Annemarie und Lucius Burckhardt kümmert und mit beiden lange Jahre zusammenarbeitete. Zu Hören sind hierbei auch einige Ausschnitte aus einem erhalte...
Kolloquium: „Warum ist Landschaft schön?”
Ästhetik, Konstruktion und Bewertung von Landschaft • Das Zentrum für Gegenwartskunst NAIRS in Scuol (Schweiz) widmet ein öffentliches Kolloquium dem Thema Landschaft: „Grundlage und Bezugspunkt bildet hierbei der Text „Warum ist Landschaft schön?“ von...
