The city is Sarajevo, and the route the woman takes became known as Sniper Alley during the siege of the city endured by its citizens for 1395 days between 1992 and 1996. The woman, played by Spanish actress Maribel Verdu, is reliving the experience of the trauma of the siege. It is her individual journey through [...]
21 Days in the Cairngorms was a project by walking artist Hamish Fulton who walked from Huntly in Aberdeenshire for twenty-one days over and through the Cairngorms. In his walks Hamish Fulton actively tests himself and his body: undertaking a full week of walking without sleep; walking from one side of the country to the [...]
Don’t miss Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums popular series of Friday afternoon Summer City Walks. Explore Aberdeen’s rich and often dramatic past with Chris Croly. Historian and Fiona Mair, Learning Manager. Tickets £3 and £2 concessions can be booked in person at the Art Gallery Shop or by calling 01224 523695
This wiki-space is an archive/resource relating to the Walking and Art residency at Banff Centre of Art in 2007. All the participating artists are listed with information about their projects and interesting links. It offers a huge variety of walking-based art practice. There’s a nice collection of lists relating to walking here which are worth [...]
Walkways is a Tate Modern collaborative commission. ‘For this project FrenchMottershead chose to work with individuals who showed varying degrees of control or conscious resistance, amidst the urban and socio-economic environments of their lives. Following the participants on their normal walks, FM explored different ways in which they could intervene in to these every day [...]
“Walking man” Walking on the sculpture; both men and women walking. Instability, resonating sound. Things that cannot be seen touch my bodily senses in a time lapse. Deep in thought, I am stimulated to move in all directions.
Works and projects shown in digital portofolio of the internationally appreciated artist group.
Limousine Bull Artists’ Collective present an art exhibition and performance by artists Norma D. Hunter and Mihret Kebede. 16th February 2012 6pm 3C Deemouth Business Centre South Esplanade East Aberdeen AB11 9PB View map here. For further information, please contact art@limousinebull.plus.com or info@deveron-arts.com.
“One autumn evening in 2005, a friend and I lost patience waiting for a bus and on a whim decided to walk the bus’s route. Six hours later we’d drifted across London from Battersea to Chelsea, Victoria, Vauxhall, the west end into the small hours of the morning. Surprised at how fresh and energised we [...]
Landscape and Environment is a thematic, multidisciplinary programme funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council aiming to develop arts and humanities understandings of landscape and environment in distinctive, innovative and engaging ways through research projects of the highest quality and international significance. The Landscape and Environment Programme was established in September 2005 with the appointment by [...]
EDMONTON – Many of us complain about the daily grind, but Masahito Yoshida did something about it. “When I was in Japan, the same every day. I wake up, I work, I ate. The next day, the same. I wake up, I work, I ate. I was hoping to change my life, so I walk,” [...]
Ethiopian artist Mihret Kebede would have liked to walk the 5850 miles from her home in Addis Ababa to our town of Huntly, Aberdeenshire. However the physical difficulties of navigating through the deserts, let alone the closed borders and visa restrictions make such a feat almost impossible. So Mihret needs our help. As part of [...]
Artist Mihret Kebede and the Rhynie Youth Group walking as part of the Slow Marathon. For more information and to get involved, click here.
Mihret Kebede’s audio and photographic works explore intimacy, transition and contestation of the status quo. In a public space, she offers individuals new shoelaces in exchange for their old ones; questioning our (in)ability to accept change and navigating established systems. Mihret is Director of Netsa Art Village, Ethiopia, a platform for young artists to network [...]
[murmur] is a non-profit, community-based, locative oral storytelling project: [murmur] in: Toronto Kenora Montréal Sudbury Vancouver Orange San Jose São Paulo Dublin Galway Edinburgh Geelong
From 1953 to 1981 a silver haired woman calling herself only “Peace Pilgrim” walked more than 25,000 miles on a personal pilgrimage for peace. She vowed to “remain a wanderer until mankind has learned the way of peace, walking until given shelter and fasting until given food.” In the course of her 28 year pilgrimage she touched [...]
Phill harding is a freelance composer/soundartist based in the pennine hills of west yorkshire, england [uk]. much of phill’s current work involves the use of environmental field recordings—focusing on the sounds we usually ignore or filter out—to point out the beauty in the mundane.
Plan B are the artists Sophia New and Daniel Belasco Rogers. We make performance work, durational work, participatory projects, locative media and audio projects and exhibit the outcomes of our data collection activities
Ramblers are a British registered charity which promotes rambling, protects rights of way, campaigns for access to open country and defends the landscape. See their website for info on rural and urban walks, projects, walking holidays, equipment and much more
rwethereyet? is about two people who are passionate about what they do. It is about committing to something and seeing it through and it is about marching for causes and home. For a number of years now Ajamu and Jane, who both live in Brixton, have walked around Brockwell Park planning, sharing, challenging, learning and laughing. Ajamu is [...]
‘The backbone of the Sideways festival is a 4 week expedition through Belgium, from West to East, between August 17th and September 17th 2012. [...] Sideways sets out to explore a series of sidetracks. Fairly removed from Belgium’s metropolitan arts centres and academic strongholds, it opens an artistic research on the cultural meanings of [...]
Sonic Journeys is a collection of aural landscapes that connect the creator, listener and music with the world around us. Sonic Journeys commissions artists to create new works in response to specific stretches of landscape that inspire them on various journeys taken by foot, train and other modes of transport in rural and urban locations. [...]
A Curious Meander Is a site-specific artwork By Sorrel Muggridge. This project took place at Pull’s Ferry on the River Wensum in Norwich. Where you were invited to take a walk with the water, to become part of the installation artwork floating on the river itself. “Everywhere water scribes our landscape, But how do these [...]
“Welcome to Take Back the Night. A place free form sexual assault and abuse. We invite you to become part of the solution , part of the end to sexual violence. Here is a place to take a stand, a place to break the violence. Here we can take back the night!” A woman walks [...]
Talky Walky was a project that brought artists, art lovers and walkers in the Aberdeenshire locality together. Once a month, in the winters of 2006 and 2007, people walked from one artist studio in the Shire to the next, encompassing art old and new often many miles over the hills. From the Scottish Sculpture workshop [...]
“All Truly Great Thoughts are Conceived by Walking” Led by Ana Laura López de la Torre The title of this workshop, taken from a quote by Friedrich Nietzsche, refers to walking as a creative medium and to the pedestrian as an active creator of public space. From Baudelaire’s flâneur and the Situationists’ theory of psychogeography, [...]
The Road North is a world map of Scotland composed by Alec Finlay and Ken Cockburn, as they travel through their homeland, guided by the Japanese poet Basho, whose Oku-no-Hosomichi (Narrow Road to the Deep North) is one of the masterpieces of travel literature.
As part of the two year long Steep Trail project, Polarcap held an Eco Lab event, beginning and ending at the Edinburgh Sculpture workshop. This was essentially a gathering of artists and scientists who’s interests and work lies in environmental issues coming together to discuss various causes, with the life and work of John Muir [...]
In summer 2008, Mark Moxon spent three months walking the entire London Underground network, overground. This is the story of that walk, along with over 9750 photographs, route maps, points of interest and tips for those looking for a different way to explore London on foot.
UK Border Walk is a 77k walk along the English/Scottish border by Artist Rocca Gutteridge and Curator Claudia Zeiske. A public Artachat discussion will take place in the Romany town of Kirk Yetholm halfway along the way. Both walk and talk aim to highlight and discuss the effects the Points Based System (PBS) has for [...]
Walking Art Research Group set up by Tim Brennan for more info please email: WALK@sunderland.ac.uk
Walk walk walk: an archaeology of the familiar and the forgotten is a participatory live art event, with a walk at its core. The project begins with an exploration of urban routine. Starting from the routes we take to and from work and home, part time jobs and friends houses, we established a methodology for [...]
Walk walk walk: an archaeology of the familiar and the forgotten is a participatory live art event, with a walk at its core. The project begins with an exploration of urban routine. Starting from the routes we take to and from work and home, part time jobs and friends houses, we established a methodology for the [...]
The Walking Artist’s Network seeks to connect those who define themselves as walking artists – or who are interested in walking as a mode of art practice – through a series of meetings and an online interface. It doesn’t quite exist yet, but we’re working on it and would like to invite you to take [...]
Walking Lunches are a weekly series of moving meetings with artists, art professionals and other people in the locality, initiated by Claudia Zeiske, Director of Deveron Arts. Walking Lunches are an adaptation of ‘working lunches’, combining the purpose of a business meeting with fitness and environment appreciation. The idea is that instead of lunch-time meetings [...]
Landscape and walking provide the catalyst for Walking the Land’s creative activities. Based in the Gloucestershire countryside, Walking the Land comprises three lead artists, Richard and Tom Keating and Kel Portman. Each share a passion for the landscape, using artworks to bring landscape and environmental issues to a wider public audience. As painters, sculptors, photographers, [...]
Wrights & Sites is a group of artist- researchers with a special relationship to site, city/landscape and walking. Formed in UK, 1997, Wrights & Sites are four artist-researchers (Stephen Hodge, Simon Persighetti, Phil Smith andCathy Turner) whose work is focused on peoples’ relationships to places, cities, landscape and walking. We employ disrupted walking strategies as tools for playful debate, collaboration, [...]