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The Green Line

Walking
Jerusalem, Israel

Jerusalem

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painting

Collection · 23 items

Sao Paulo

Collection · 10 items

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Francis Alÿs – The Green Line

Alÿs strolled through what he referred to as the typical city of conflict. His route somehow followed the village in Jerusalem of the ceasefire demarcation line1 separating Palestinian and Israeli communities since the end of the 1948 Israel War of Independence.

Francis Alÿs
Walking piece

Painting with his feet

Kazuo Shiraga transformed painting into performance, using his feet to kick, drag, and smear thick oil paint across floor-laid canvases. His bold, dynamic gestures capture bodily energy, dissolving the line between artist, movement, and material.

Kazuo Shiraga
Walking piece

Vagina Painting

In Vagina Painting, Kubota attached a paintbrush to her underwear and moved across paper, creating red, sweeping marks. The performance subverted the phallus-as-brush trope of action painting, blending performance, body, and avant-garde experimentation.

Shigeko Kubota
walkingevent

Visual Path to Prespa / 1st Painting Workshop

Visual Path to Prespa/1st Painting Workshop/University of Western Macedonia presents at the Platforms Project/Contemporary Art Platforms Thursday 9th to Sunday 12th,  October 2025 the evolution of the Visual Path through its latest form as a partner of the Creative Europe Program: Walking and Local Communities (WALC and LOCAL COMMUNITIES/WALC) as well as the initiator/ organizer of the International Encounters

Yannis Ziogas
walkingevent

Visual March to Prespes: walking with concepts and images

Our interactive, one-day seminar on The Visual March to Prespes: Walking with concepts and images will be held on Friday the 9th of January 2026 from 18:00 to 21:00 in the Contemporary Greek Art Institute (ISET) and streamed online. The Visual March to Prespes is a process that is taking place in the Prespes area

Geert Vermeire

Jerusalem

Collection · 3 items

painting

Collection · 23 items

Sao Paulo

Collection · 10 items

Related

video

Francis Alÿs – The Green Line

Alÿs strolled through what he referred to as the typical city of conflict. His route somehow followed the village in Jerusalem of the ceasefire demarcation line1 separating Palestinian and Israeli communities since the end of the 1948 Israel War of Independence.

Francis Alÿs
Walking piece

Painting with his feet

Kazuo Shiraga transformed painting into performance, using his feet to kick, drag, and smear thick oil paint across floor-laid canvases. His bold, dynamic gestures capture bodily energy, dissolving the line between artist, movement, and material.

Kazuo Shiraga
Walking piece

Vagina Painting

In Vagina Painting, Kubota attached a paintbrush to her underwear and moved across paper, creating red, sweeping marks. The performance subverted the phallus-as-brush trope of action painting, blending performance, body, and avant-garde experimentation.

Shigeko Kubota
walkingevent

Visual Path to Prespa / 1st Painting Workshop

Visual Path to Prespa/1st Painting Workshop/University of Western Macedonia presents at the Platforms Project/Contemporary Art Platforms Thursday 9th to Sunday 12th,  October 2025 the evolution of the Visual Path through its latest form as a partner of the Creative Europe Program: Walking and Local Communities (WALC and LOCAL COMMUNITIES/WALC) as well as the initiator/ organizer of the International Encounters

Yannis Ziogas
walkingevent

Visual March to Prespes: walking with concepts and images

Our interactive, one-day seminar on The Visual March to Prespes: Walking with concepts and images will be held on Friday the 9th of January 2026 from 18:00 to 21:00 in the Contemporary Greek Art Institute (ISET) and streamed online. The Visual March to Prespes is a process that is taking place in the Prespes area

Geert Vermeire
Walking piece
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In the summer of 1995 I performed a walk with a leaking can of blue paint in the city of São Paulo. The walk was then read as a poetic gesture of sorts. In June 2004, I re-enacted that same performance with a leaking can of green paint by tracing a line following the portion of the ‘Green Line’ that runs through the municipality of Jerusalem.

In the summer of 1995 I performed a walk with a leaking can of blue paint in the city of São Paulo. The walk was then read as a poetic gesture of sorts. In June 2004, I re-enacted that same performance with a leaking can of green paint by tracing a line following the portion of the ‘Green Line’ that runs through the municipality of Jerusalem. 58 liters of green paint were used to trace 24 km. Shortly after, a filmed documentation of the walk was presented to a number of people whom I invited to react spontaneously to the action and the circumstances within which it was performed.

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Alÿs, F. (2004). The Green Line. walk · listen · create. https://walklistencreate.org/walkingpiece/the-green-line/
Submitted by: Babak Fakhamzadeh

pedestrian acts

By de Certeau: In “Walking in the City”, de Certeau conceives pedestrianism as a practice that is performed in the public space, whose architecture and behavioural habits substantially determine the way we walk. For de Certeau, the spatial order “organises an ensemble of possibilities (e.g. by a place in which one can move) and interdictions (e.g. by a wall that prevents one from going further)” and the walker “actualises some of these possibilities” by performing within its rules and limitations. “In that way,” says de Certeau, “he makes them exist as well as emerge.” Thus, pedestrians, as they walk conforming to the possibilities that are brought about by the spatial order of the city, constantly repeat and re-produce that spatial order, in a way ensuring its continuity. But, a pedestrian could also invent other possibilities. According to de Certeau, “the crossing, drifting away, or improvisation of walking privilege, transform or abandon spatial elements.” Hence, the pedestrians could, to a certain extent, elude the discipline of the spatial order of the city. Instead of repeating and re-producing the possibilities that are allowed, they can deviate, digress, drift away, depart, contravene, disrupt, subvert, or resist them. These acts, as he calls them, are pedestrian acts.

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