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Walking Art and Resistance at the 61st Venice Biennale: from Pussy Riot to the Holy See
Venice in May. Green water, muted light, the racketing of tourists’ wheeling luggage across damp stone. Now the Biennale has opened there are new sounds, sometimes protest chants, sometimes the footsteps of marchers. Or perhaps they are old sounds. Venice: a stage for spectacle and protest since the upheavals of 1968. The clamour of a
• Is it possible to tread lightly on our world?
Radhika Subramaniam is Associate Professor of Visual Culture at Parsons School of Design/The New School in New York City where she was also the first Director/Chief Curator of the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center from 2009 to 2017. With an interdisciplinary practice as curator and writer, she explores crises and surprises as they emerge in urban life, walking, art and
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Walking Men Worldwide
Walking Men worldwide™ is a series of public art installations, a photographic collage of pedestrian traffic icons assembled from around the world, presented in humane scale. The project was conceived as a collaborative effort of international photographers, each adding a piece to the collage. In January 2010, the project made its debut on 99 Church
Ascent: A Boulder Soundwalk
Inspired by composer Divya Maus' relationship to the Rocky Mountains as first an immigrant from Germany, a local, and then a returning visitor, ASCENT is a classical music experience installed in Boulder Colorado's Scott Carpenter Park that radically increases the accessibility of traditional choral concerts.
Walking pieces
The Gates
An installation in Central Park consisting on 7,503 gates with 4.87 meters (16 feet) hight and variable widths, each one holding a saffron colored fabric from the top part of the frame. The gates were installed alongside 37 kilometers (23 miles) of walkways where people were invited to walk by.
Soundwalkscape December
Soundwalkscapes December The FINAL WORK in this year-long project! My rule was to take a walk on the first Monday of every month in 2023. In December I walked Central Park NY bridleway. https://soundcloud.com/ivorringham/soundwalkscape-december-2023
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Articles on WLC
Walking a Meadow: Cultivating Collective Attention
Laura Reeder walked with local youth and neighbors over two underused lawns in the City of Syracuse, NY. The walks turned undervalued public fields into living drawings, exploring how walking in public space connects ecology, safety, and community.Her work is shortlisted for the Marŝarto Awards 2025. Below, she reflects on the experience. My year as resident artist with
Articles elsewhere
The West 77th Street Stone Arch in Central Park
From time to time, I do New York City things that fall outside my day job or bird blog, and I feel I would like to share them. It may be a walk, a scene in Central Park, or a museum visit. I still have this website.I often go months, if not years, upda...
Meaningful Gestures: Book Read and Performance at City Reliquary Museum, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Meaningful Gestures: Book Read and Performance at City Reliquary Museum, Williamsburg, Brooklyn Saturday, November 1st, at 2pm FREE admission https://withfriends.events/event/9mVUi0qn/book-launch-learning-dance-through-meaningful-gestures/ Anabella Lenzu will be reading passages from her NEW book Teaching and Learning Dance Through Meaningful Gestures, show short dance videos from the ALDD repertory, and have a Q&A session. Teaching and Learning Dance Through […]
Book Launch and Reading: Teaching and Learning Dance Through Meaningful Gestures by Anabella Lenzu
Book Launch and Reading:Teaching and Learning Dance Through Meaningful Gesturesby Anabella Lenzu Sunday, February 23rd at 2pm at Peridance Center, #nycFREE Admission, RSVP required: info@anabellalenzu.comhttps://www.anabellalenzu.com/meaningful-gestures From her NEW book Teaching and Learning Dance Through Meaningful Gestures, Anabella will be reading passages and showing short dance videos from the ALDD repertory.A Q&A session will follow. Teaching […]
Events
Walking America, with Neil King Jr and Tom Zoellner
Join two American authors as they trade tips and share insights about writing and walking at walk · listen · create’s Walking America. For our inaugural conversation on November 29, we are delighted to welcome authors Neil King Jr. and Tom Zoellner, to discuss their epic walks through America’s divided political landscapes in search of common ground.
• Brooklyn Waterfront Listening Walk
Join me for a free listening walk in Brooklyn Heights and Brooklyn Bridge Park! The worldwide COVID shutdowns of the last year spurred new interest in the urban soundscape. As the background noise of transportation subsided, many noticed the smaller sounds that were there all along. The planes may have resumed, but I hope we
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