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SWS25 New 2025

abandoned: American Train

Blake guides you miles down forgotten railroad tracks to an abandoned double-decker passenger train in the middle of the California desert.

Walking piece
Marŝarto25 New 2025

A deck for London

A deck of 48 task cards, specifically designed for London.

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Babak Fakhamzadeh
Walking piece
New 1970

Man Walking Down the Side of a Building

“Man Walking Down the Side of a Building” was first performed in New York in 1970. A man descended the side of a building at 80 Wooster Street, and is part of a series called ‘Equipment Pieces’, drawing attention to the simple act of walking in an unnatural scenario.

Trisha Brown
Sound walk
SWS25 New 2025

The deathless tempest encroaching

Imagine the pond is a stormy sea. The closer you get, the more intense the gale becomes. Take cover behind monuments—listen to what speaks in their wake—and dare to glean what lies in the eye of the storm.

SJR Caldwell
Sound walk
SWS25 New 2025

Whisper in a Lily’s Ear

A data sonification piece based on five poems written by female poets who lived/worked in Boston over the course of its history.

Jess Skyleson
Sound walk
SWS25 New 2025

Traces

What happens when we change the soundtrack of a place we think we know?

Christina Campanella
Walking piece
New 1997

Paradox of Praxis 1 (Sometimes Making Something Leads to Nothing)

Video documentation of Francys Alÿs performance, where he is shown pushing a block of ice for nice hours along the strees of Mexico City.

Francis Alÿs
Sound walk
New 1996

Louisiana Walk

A walk piece by Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller, curated by Bruce Ferguson for the landmark group exhibition Walking and Thinking and Walking, at the Louisiana Art Museum in Denmark, 1996. The walk leads the audience through the back end of the museum, by the sea, through a garden, mixing fictional images evoked by the narration with factual imagery seen by the listener.

Janet Cardiff George Bures Miller
Walking piece
New 2014

Poema Volcánico (Volcanic Poem)

Eduardo Navarro project for Bienal de Cuenca 12, in Ecuador, investigating how to capture a volcano’s energy and using it as a transformative tool. He used a special suit to get to the volcano crater protected from the suplur and high temperatures, to create drawings in a partnership with the GuaGua Pichincha active volcano, using litmus paper, which measured the acidity in the gas emissions produced by the fumaroles inside the crater.

Eduardo Navarro
Walking piece
New 1980

Suite Vénitienne (Venetian Suite)

Suite Vénitienne is a series of photographs and diaristic texts documeting Sophie Calle’s surveillance of Henry B, a man she does not know and has no particular reason to follow. An investigation on her own psychological projections and emotions while building a fictional construct around her subject.

Sophie Calle
Walking piece
New 1967

Walking Sculpture [Scultura da passeggio]

A giant ball made of newspaper, part of his “Minus Object” series, is rolled along the streets of Turin, between three galleries.

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Michelangelo Pistoletto
Sound walk
SWS25 New 2025

Normalised Interfacing

Normalised Interfacing is a wheelchair soundwalk, mapping the experiences and thoughts of a wheelchair user in a new city.

Amble Skuse

slew

A short walk or stroll, as in “I’ll take a slew around the harbour before going to bed.” from the Dictionary of Newfoundland English (University of Toronto Press, 1982).

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