Ali is an artist who has a passion for connecting people and generating dialogue through her work. For the last 25 years she has been inspired by the art form of carnival, and has designed carnival bands and outdoor performances. She is known particularly for her textile work on silk on a very large-scale. In [...]
“The end of her life was terrible. She who had been the most beautiful and most desired women of her time became a half-mad woman driven by a mania for walking… … for hours and hours she would walk, coming back to her house only when the dawn was beginning to disperse the darkness she [...]
“Women Walking” has been supported by a small grant from the BA and is being undertaken in collaboration with Dr. Cathy Turner (University of Exeter). Our research explores the use of walking as primary material – process and/or output – in the work of women artists. (See “Walking Women: Interviews with artists on the move”, [...]
Artist Elspeth Owen walks under the name Material Woman. As August 2012 had two full moons, Material Woman set herself the challenge to spend the period… To read more about the Material Woman, go for the web http://imaginedcorners.net/home.html
Personal experience drew Ghislaine to the subject of walking: from charting the first hesitant steps of her children, to watching the determination and courage of her mother refusing to accept the debilitating progress of Parkinson’s disease. In particular Ghislaine was inspired by the work in the gait and human performance laboratory, where computer generated images [...]
The Artist has been exploring the phenomenon of walking since 1999 when they moved to Detroit, the Motor City. The planners had scarcely made provision for pedestrians but they discovered a vast network of ‘desire lines’ which residents have created by simply walking where they want to go. Since then Ramsden’s practice has been [...]
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.
Goal: To walk 10,000 plus steps a day in order to explore, contemplate and become more aware of Nature, desires and well-being. During each walk, the artist leaves a “mark” somewhere along the way. This mark holds a message (love, hear, be, laugh, etc.) for whomever comes upon it; it also serves as a reminder to the fact that “WE” are “HERE” together. Each mark/walk [...]
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 [...]
The writer Linda Cracknell uses walking both as subject matter and a practical tool in her writing. In May, she will hold a weekend workshop, Words In The Landscape, using walking at the writer’s retreat Moniack Mhor near Beauly. “There is something that walking does that helps creativity,” she explains. “The inner journey is often [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Strategies for Leaving and Arriving Home was a two-month participatory performance in which the artist relocated from Melbourne to Sydney in winter, on foot. In her pack she carried a tent, a sleeping bag and a four-day supply of food. Walking 20km per day following the train line. There was no support vehicle. Throughout the [...]
Armenian Deep sea fish is an audiowalk free to download. This work invites you to walk in the streets of Cihangir. Beginning at the door of the Cezayir building (in the Hayriye caddesi, behind the Galata Saray school), it takes 30 minutes and ends in the point of departure. Initiated as a continuation of [...]
Tamara Ashley and Simone Kenyon share mutual interests in exploring performance and improvisation to build narratives within and for landscapes and places. Currently, their work is concerned with specific response to and interaction with sites, bringing alive the heritage of the site and posing new ideas about places through performance. Most recently they presented ‘Exchanging [...]
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 [...]
Vanessa is a dance and multidisciplinary artist from Sicily now based in Leeds, UK. Her projects involve cross art-form collaboration, improvisation and site-specific performance. Works include: Momentary Distractions The Installation Walk was part of Momentary Distractions – three works commissioned by the University of Leeds to Vanessa Grasse, Daliah Toure and Kathinka Walter as part of [...]
Directed by Nicole Holofcener. With Catherine Keener, Anne Heche, Amy Braverman, Miranda Rhyne