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(Parenthesis)
Through multiple iterations, and using group slow-walking as its primary medium, (Parenthesis) explores these questions as a practice-based study of place, focusing on its traceable and less perceptible politics, histories and interactions.
Drowning Out the Noise: An Experiment in Sonic Ethnography
An eighteen channel sonic ethnographic installation consisting of binaural-recorded walking interviews about everyday music with queer individuals throughout their daily walking and traveling routines in their neighborhoods.
Scrambling for maps
March 2026 we are holding 3 online Map Scrambles, in which artists will be discussing when and why they use maps or mapping to document their walking art. Map Scramble 1 (Monday 23 7pm GMT) Map Scramble 2 (Wednesday 25 7pm GMT) Map Scramble 3 (Thursday 26 7pm GMT) Each events part of the
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• +12 Keep Walking Intently
Meet the authors who are writing about walking and the landscapes through which we walk, at Walking Writers Salons. We are delighted to welcome art critic and historian Lori Waxman who will be talking with Babak Fakhamzadeh about her book Keep Walking Intently, a seminal history of walking art in the Twentieth century. Lead art critic
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Huizkol
Huizkol is an audio paper designed for a 49-minute walk featuring seven sequential binaural beat “updrafts” that mimic different brainwave patterns, from deep sleep Delta waves to stimulating Beta waves and back. Premiered in Chicago in 2020, the piece explores brainwave entrainment and its effects on the body and mind through timed auditory stimulation aligned with the walk’s pacing.
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Interview with JeeYeun Lee
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 23rd interview in this […]
Interview with Michael x Ryan
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 21th interview in this […]
A step in New York/A footfall in Lahore
I lived for a decade in Chicago, where I could only walk in the Midway Plaisance—a wide boulevard with a fat-bellied, grassy middle—in Hyde Park. The 1893 World’s Columbian Exhibition was held in Hyde Park and the Plaisance was a covered walk with concessions and private entertainment decked around it: markets from Algeria and Tunis, an ‘Indian’ village, an Oriental (Chinese) village and theatre, an Indian bazaar, a Moorish palace, a street in Cairo. The official guidebook told the white ‘walkers’ that they should expect to bump into an ‘Indian’ family making their bread or a Pathan sepoy waxing his moustache. Franz Boas, later to lead Columbia’s anthropology department, was the main force behind the 1893 Chicago Fair and had been hired by Frederic Putnam, then director of Harvard University’s Peabody Museum.… Continue reading A step in New York/A footfall in Lahore →
A Chicago Street Festival Reimagined With Audio.
How one composer turned a classical music festival into an immersive outdoor audio walk.We’re looking back at some of the ways creators on our platform have combined their artistic vision with audio storytelling. Diving into the world of classical musi...
