This presentation by Bill Psarras reflects on the concept of topogesture which is a methodological distillation emerging from the author’s artistic practice over the last decade, within the remedial convergences of walking performance, poetry, and technology. Etymologically viewed, such a neologism is created as an oscillation between place (topos) and gesture (cheironomia), aiming to underscore how the artistic act invests meaning into and

Artists working along routes and in landscapes Art has been entwined with pilgrimage from the outset, in iconography and relics, object attribution and travel souvenirs, music and folklore, and more recently in walking performances. Does a pilgrimage route become an open-air studio exhibiting the pilgrim experience? Presenters included: Professor Kathryn Barush author of Imaging Pilgrimage: Art as Embodied

Video recording of a talk that introduces WALKING, a symposium exploring practices of walking as modes of perception, spatial inquiry, and collective reflection. Situated in relation to Lucius Burckhardt’s Spaziergangswissenschaft, WALKING brings together positions from landscape architecture, art, research, and curatorial practice to examine how environments are read, constructed, and contested through movement. The presentation

In association with the Urban Tree Festival, we welcomed Marlene Creates award-winning photographer and long time supporter of walk · listen · create, as our café guest. Marlene discussed some of the work she has done over the past 24 years in her outdoor studio, which is a six-acre (2.4 hectares) patch of old-growth boreal forest where she

Video record of the third On Pilgrimage event in the series focussing on Faith-based, radical and community-led pathsand we are delighted to have Conchita Espino, Director of Mar a Mar, the organisation behind the Camino de Costa Rica,  Matthew R Anderson Gatto Chair of Christian Studies, at St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada and author of The Good Walk:

Walk Notations is a new publication (February, 2026) that brings together traces emerging from Dissident Paths: Walking Together as a Method, a series of artistic walks across Berlin in 2025, a curatorial collaboration between initiatives ReRouting and Cruising Curators for nGbK, Berlin. Moving between artistic practices, curatorial conversations, and reflections, the book approaches walking as a method for being together in

Working alongside the World Trails Network (WTN), a community of trail management and tourism providers, that include many traditional pilgrimage routes and trails that now accommodate secular pilgrims, we are running a series of online events to discuss the roles walking art plays in pilgrimage and vice versa. This second event in the series focusses on Contemporary pilgrimage,

Walking artist presenters in this video: Tamsin Grainger, Hannah Stageman, Fiona Hooton, Bill Psarras and Petra Johnson The third of an initial series of three Map Scrambles in which walking artists share how each of them documents walking art, specifically be adapting, modifying or creating their own maps. Early last year, Clara Gari of Nau

Walking artist presenters featured in this video are: Marlene Creates, Ruth Broadbent, Idit Nathan, Martin Eccles, Barbara Lounder and Rachel Gomme. Please note that some technical issues were encountered when showing the presentations. For a Summary of this meeting please see the post “Scrambling for maps“. The second of an initial series of three Map

Map Scramble 1 – presenters David Haley (UK), Lucy Furlong (UK), Janette Kerr (UK) and Emily Artinian (US) For a Summary of this meeting please see the post “Scrambling for maps“. There is growing interest in how each of us documents walking art, especially as walk · listen · create and its predecessor, the Museum

Working alongside the World Trails Network (WTN), a community of trail management and tourism providers, that include many traditional pilgrimage routes and trails that now accommodate secular pilgrims, we are running a series of online events to discuss the roles walking art plays in pilgrimage and vice versa. Our guests on this opening event include Professor Kathryn Barush author

In this online café, we brought together four artists and practitioners working at the intersection of walking, health, and care to explore how walking is shaped by lived physical conditions. Rather than focusing on walking as an individual ability, we ask how walking becomes a practice of adaptation, resilience, negotiation, and relational care. Through artistic

Too easy to make the assumption that everyone can walk – surely it is the most human thing we humans can do? However, not everyone has the privilege of the sensorial able-bodied. Often overlooked in event planning or in creative compositions, yet frequently made to feel as if in the spotlight, an unintended public performer,

Video recording of a conversation between Julian Hoffman, author of Lifelines – searching for home in the mountains of Greece, and Annemarie Lopez. When Julian first arrived in Greece’s remote Prespa region, his Greek was “almost non-existent.” Walking became a form of literacy for him—a way to learn the language of the land by tracing the

Recording of a WALC Cafe hosted by Mary Marinopoulou of Action Synergy. 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

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

A walk · listen · cafe with Saira Niazi Towards the end of 2024, during a highly contentious election season, writer, guide and founder of Living London, Saira Niazi, spent two months in the US (New York and San Francisco) developing a research project on tour guiding. Attending various walking tours and community events, exploring

This online café explores the intersection of walking arts and political marches, a collective listening and conversation featuring influential walking artists whose work delves into social justice, environmental grief, and embodied storytelling.

Video Hosted by Clara Gari of Nau Côclea. Join us for the online presentation of the upcoming Grand Tour 2025! This year’s route will take us from the Maresme to the Pyrenees, through the Montseny, Les Guilleries, and Osona, weaving a collective journey of artistic creation and shared walking, with more artists than ever. As

Video recording of a Walking Art & Local Communities Cafe Women walking, The city, At night, is a performance series in the form of collective walks between women. It was began by Eléonore Ozanne in Seville, Spain in September 2022 on the night of the ‘Harvest Moon’ and is growing to a global action. This year the

Video recording of a Confluence introduced by Geert Vermeire, one of WALC’s co-artistic coordinators. The event came live from Guimarães in northern Portugal, where Babak Fakhamzadeh has been setting up a photographic exhibition called ‘in loving memory‘. Part psychogeographic, part interventionist, our urban explorer and Derive app-creator colleague, has been leaving his mark through cities

Hosted by Ali Pretty, walking artist, community activist and founding artistic director of the 2025 Beach of Dreams coastal art festival that will bring a festival of banner art, sculpture, performance and storytelling to the coastline of Britain. She invites you to discover the works of three textile artists who will be contributing to the Beach of Dreams.

Video recording of a Café hosted by Ali Pretty, walking artist, community activist and founding artistic director of the 2025 Beach of Dreams coastal art festival that will bring a festival of banner art, sculpture, performance and storytelling to the coastline of Britain. She asks “when does craft become art?“, and to this café has

Video recording of Walking Home / Walking in Transition the theme set for the next International Walking Arts Encounters in Prespa (WAC 25).  This WALC Café offers a closer look at what you can expect in July 2025 and zooms in on its themes, context, place, the call criteria and what is offered to interested participants. The Prespa International