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 public space. Some contributions revisit specific sites or gestures from the program while others move further afield, driven by personal memory, archival research, theoretical analysis, or speculative fiction. Conceived as a portable companion, Walk Notations invites the readers to navigate the city otherwise—attentive to detours, thresholds, and the possibilities that emerge when paths are made collectively.
A video recording of an event at which two of the project’s curators Clementine Butler-Gallie and Eirini Fountedaki, who is also the editor of the publication, came together in conversation with Lorna Powell, to share more on the programme of walks and how the publication came to form from them. They are joined by Yasmeen Al-Qaisi out and about on foot in Bucharest and Elena Biserna two of the publication’s many contributors, who will share readings from the book connecting them back to their walk actions.
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Walking Arts & Local Communities (WALC) is an artistic cooperation project, co-funded by the European Union, Creative Europe, starting in January 2024 for four years. With seven partners from five countries, WALC establishes an International Center for Artistic Research and Practice of Walking Arts, in Prespa, Greece, at the border with Albania and North Macedonia, backed up by an online counterpart in the format of a digital platform for walking arts.
WALC builds on the previous work of hundreds of artists and researchers already practicing Walking Arts as a collaborative medium, and having met at the significant previous walking arts events and encounters in Greece, Portugal, Spain, France, Belgium, and during online activities at walk · listen · create.
We acknowledge the support of the EU Creative Europe Cooperation grant program in the framework of the European project WALC (Walking Arts and Local Community).
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.
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