How can a guided tour become an artistic practice?

This article explores how artists have transformed the guided tour into a performative and participatory form of walking. From Dada excursions and Surrealist walks to Situationist dérives, Fluxus Free Flux-Tours and the Spanish Revista Caminada, it traces a genealogy of artistic walking practices that challenge institutional narratives and invite alternative ways of experiencing place.

The article also presents La visita desviada (The Deviated Tour), a site-specific walking performance developed in Asturias (Spain), where performative instructions, chance and collective action reshape the familiar format of the guided tour. Rather than transmitting knowledge about a place, the walk becomes an open framework for attention, play and shared discovery.

The article has just been published in Accesos. Revista de Investigación Artística, issue 9 (2026). The full text is available here.