Second session of the opening Module “Foundations of Walking Arts”, grounding participants in the genealogies and foundations of walking as an artistic and social practice. Walking is approached as an everyday activity that has been transformed into an artistic gesture, a research method, and a form of cultural inquiry. Participants explore historical and contemporary lineages—from early avant-garde practices and ritual movement to socially engaged and place-based walking art—while reconnecting theory to embodied experience.
Here, walking is understood as a situated practice, shaped by context, habit, and attention. Participants begin developing their own walking practice by attuning to rhythm, perception, and the politics of movement through space.

This session, shaped by Aspasia Voudouri and the Australian Walking Artists, examines how walking became a recognised artistic medium from the 1970s to today, focusing on artists who used walking to transform landscape, site and perception. Case studies include Richard Long’s Athens Slate Line and Hamish Fulton, showing how walking activates physical and symbolic environments and impacts local audiences. The session explores the relationship between walking art and society, revealing how artistic gestures respond to and shape cultural and historical contexts.

A presentation by Aspasia Voudouri is followed by an introduction to the Australian Walking ArtistsFive invited artists from Australia talk about their work – Melinda Hunt, Megan Williams, Sepa Sama, Perdita Phillips, Bea Mowson and Molly Wagner.

Concluded by a Practice Session and Q&A

Participation only by course registration