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Wanderers of Earth and Sky: Walking as Art in a Time of Crisis
In early 2023, we hosted Teri Rueb and Bill Gilbert for an online cafe, called Being led by the stars, in which they shared a powerful and poetic conversation about their practices, which both revolve around walking, not merely as movement, but as a way of knowing, resisting, and reconnecting, bringing together a global audience to explore how walking art engages with celestial rhythms, climate anxieties, and questions of embodiment in the Anthropocene
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•Walking as political resistance: From May 1968 to contemporary marches
Walking has long served as a potent form of political expression, transforming the simple act of moving through public spaces into a declaration of dissent, solidarity, and hope. From the revolutionary fervor of May 1968 in Paris to the contemporary global marches advocating for workers’ rights and protesting state abuses, walking remains an enduring symbol of collective resistance against systemic injustices.
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Discovering creativity while walking Britain’s Postal Paths
Alan Cleaver is an author from Whitehaven, Cumbria UK whose latest book, The Postal Paths, looks at the routes walked by rural postmen and postwomen from the 1850s until the 1970s (vans are now used for all delivery routes in Britain) and the lives of the posties who walked them. Alan will be on a
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A history of walking art
Next Tuesday, February 11, we have Lori Waxman as a guest in our next Walking Writers Salon, where Lori and I discuss her book Keep Walking Intently, on the ambulatory art of the Surrealists, the Situationist International, and Fluxus.
To whet your appetite, and to prepare you for our discussion, here’s an overview of Lori’s excellent book.
•Join Us! Become part of WALC!
Are you passionate about building connections, inspiring communities, and exploring innovative practices? At WALC, we are inviting collectives, organizations, and venues to become NODES, key contributors to a growing network focused on walking arts and community-based issues.
The Marŝarto24 winners have arrived
We’ve come to the conclusion of the second instalment of the Marŝarto Awards, complementing our existing Sound Walk September Awards. Where the SWS Awards focus on sound walks, the Marŝarto Awards recognise walking art, excluding sound walks, produced in the previous year.
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The wind walks with you around the island
Liesje van den Berk draws not only what she sees but also what she hears or feels, drawing how the senses absorb the environment. And this is what she did for her piece Walk in Fleinvaer, documenting her experience on the island with the same name in Norway.
Meet the network
Latest walking pieces
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.
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.
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.
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.
بيان الصعود إلى السماء flight manifesto
A silent walk in three parts over 13 months up the Nooksack River: an anti-survey and visceral confrontation with foundational architectures of settler-colonization in Whatcom County (US), territories of the Lhaq’temish and Nuxwsá7aq nations.
Notable events
39 Steps Writers’ Showcase
39 Steps Writers’ Showcase event introduces new writing from 19 authors in our micro-flash fiction writing competition and includes readings of their prose. Run in conjunction with Sampson Low Publishers, with a special prize given by Caroline Gannon, the walk · listen · create writing competition attracted scores of entries. Challenged to write a story
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+15 Walking America – writers in conversation with Ann de Forest, Ernesto Pujol and Susan M Schultz
Does walking with a dog enhance the experience of walking? If so, in what way? For poet Susan M. Schultz and walking artist and writer Ernesto Pujol, walking with dogs offers a means to meander, to shift perspective, and to marvel again and again at the oddity of the humans they encounter, sometimes affable, sometimes confrontational.
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•Politics of Walking: Grief, Solidarity, and Resistance
The recent protests in Serbia and Greece in part started as the expression of collected grief over, oddly for both, railway disasters. The resulting marches not only represented deep discontent with the actions of the respective governments, they were also expressions of solidarity and resistance.
• The World Wide Wander 2025 In-Person Walkshop in Guarujá
Join Babak Fakhamzadeh for an in-person Street Wisdom Walkshop happening as part of this year’s big annual day of wonder and wandering, the World Wide Wander 2025.
•WALC Café – Slowness, encounter, and transformation
Hosted by Clara Gari of Nau Côclea. Join us for the online presentation of the upcoming Grand Tour 2025!This year’s route will take us from the Maresme to the Pyrenees, through the Montseny, Les Guilleries, and Osona, weaving a collective journey of artistic creation and shared walking, with more artists than ever. As always, the
•By the light of the Moon
Women walking, The city, At night, is a performance series in the form of collective walks between women. It was began by Eléonore Ozanne in Seville, Spain in September 2022 on the night of the ‘Harvest Moon’ and is growing to a global action. This year the Harvest Moon falls on 6 and 7 October. Eleonore returns
Commoning sound: AmbiMuse in Brighton
An afternoon sharing listening and creative wellbeing approaches to sustainable place-making with international researchers and artists at The Waste House at Brighton University.
Grand Tour 2025
FEATURED ARTISTS AND EXPERIENCES
The program is still under construction but this are some of the participations that we can already confirm:
• Christina Schultz, a visual artist and performer is our main artist in residency this year. She will offer a creative interpretation of the Grand Tour Library. More about her work here.
• In Sant Adrià de Besòs, we will complete the exploration started in 2024 on Barcelona’s migrant neighborhoods. Writer Javier Pérez de Andújar, born in the area and known for his literary works on its history and identity, will join us (Wikipedia).
• Possible participation of poets from El Pou del Petroli and musicians from Badalona (Pont del Petroli Edicions).
• A visit to Camping Masnou, Spain’s first-ever camping site.
• In Sant Pol de Mar, we will attend the Fira Alternativa and take part in Alba Sauleda’s closing project, the “Dream’s Mailbox,” from her Grand Tour 2024 residency (Fira Alternativa | Instagram @sauledaalba).
• In Sant Esteve de Palautordera, we will stay at Can Bonamic artist residence and participate in a voice and sound project with Neus Borrell (Can Bonamic | Instagram @neus.borrell).
• In Sant Hilari Sacalm, we will share time and rest at the Excéntrica artist hotel (Instagram).
• In Saderra (Osona), we will spend a day dedicated to music, dance, spirituality, yoga, and Hindu cuisine with Projecte Mauna (Website).
• In Ribes de Freser, we will collaborate with the artists of La Cremallera, blending music and theater (La Cremallera).
A MULTISENSORY PERFORMANCE TO CONCLUDE
The Grand Tour 2025 will end with a multisensory performance, blending visual arts, music, participatory choreography, and olfactory experiences. Directed by cellist, singer, and performer Frances Bartlett, the event is inspired by Blanca Garí’s book El poder del objeto (The Power of the Object) (Editorial Siruela).
Instagram Frances Bartlett: @bartlettfrances
This event will symbolically mark the end of our journey, exploring the memory and transformation of walking through art.
JOIN THE GRAND TOUR 2025!
If you are looking for a unique experience of artistic exploration, nature, and community, the Grand Tour 2025 is waiting for you. You can walk the entire route or just join for a few days.
Get ready to walk through historical landscapes, discover new horizons, and share this journey with creators from different disciplines.
In about a month, we will publish the stage guide on our website elgrandtour.net, where you will find details on where we are going, how many kilometers we will walk, and which artists will participate each day.
More information will be available soon on our platforms. See you on the path!
•Summer Interactive Listening Walk: Preston Park, Brighton
Join us for a lovely Summer walk with a difference: we’ll be exploring Brighton’s Preston Park past and present using a range of creative listening tools that are fun and accessible for people of all abilities.
Song of the Path walkshop
Workshop Leaders:
Rosie Montford’s exhibition ‘Song of the Path’ is on at Gallery 44AD. Her practice explores the dialogue between walking and drawing, seeking out landscapes from which she can physically combine disciplines to work across printmaking, drawing and bookmaking.
Vicky Hunter is a Visiting Research Fellow in dance and environmental humanities at Bath Spa University and formerly Professor of Site Dance at the University of Chichester. Her site-specific dance research examines the body’s engagement with space and place through considering bodily, spatial and kinetic engagements with environments. Vicky has produced a number of site dance performance works and a book publication Site, Dance and Body: Movement, Materials and Corporeal Engagement (2021).
How to book: This event is FREE but places are limited
News of WALC
WALC Nodes – call on a rolling basis
The WALC NODES initiative expands the Walking Arts and Local Community (WALC) network by supporting organizations and collectives to organize walking arts activities addressing local community issues. WALC provides networking, training, promotional opportunities, and exhibition participation. Applications are open on a rolling basis, with monthly deadlines,
WAC 25 – Walking Arts Encounters Prespa – open call extended till 28 February
The International Prespa Walking Arts Encounters 2025 (WAC 25) will take place from June 30 to July 6, 2025, in Prespa, Greece, welcoming artists, writers, researchers, and creatives worldwide. As part of the Creative Europe co-funded project “Walking Arts & Local Communities” (WALC), WAC 25 contributes to the establishment of an International Center for Artistic
Join Us! Become part of WALC!
Are you passionate about building connections, inspiring communities, and exploring innovative practices? At WALC, we are inviting collectives, organizations, and venues to become NODES, key contributors to a growing network focused on walking arts and community-based issues.
WALC NODES – open call
Open call for WALC NODES – international collectives, organizations, or venues that will organize walking arts activities addressing community-based issues in their local areas. These activities are connected to the Prespa Encounters and integrated into the larger WALC (Walking Arts and Local Community) network.
Open call – International Prespa Walking Arts Encounters 2025 (WAC 25)
Open call for the International Prespa Walking Arts Encounters 2025 (WAC 25), themed Walking Home / Walking in Transition, invites artists, writers, researchers, and creative practitioners to explore the transformative and communal potential of walking as art.
One way to acknowledge migration
Reading Geert Vermeire‘s latest newsletter, I was struck with how important walking art and walking artists have been in acknowledging those unfortunate people who have had to leave their homes, often migrating over vast distances, or switching to cultures unlike their own, learning new languages and how to get about day to day among people,
•WALC – a new future of walking arts
Walking Arts & Local Communities (WALC) is an artistic cooperation project, co-funded by the European Union, establishing an International Center for Artistic Research and Practice of Walking Arts, backed up by an online counterpart in the format of a digital platform for walking arts. The project leans strongly on involving local inhabitants, and on engaging with local activists.
curated news
‘Confluences’, a Ucross Sound Walk, Available June 6 – Sheridan Media
At the annual Ucross Foundation Founder’s Day held on May 31 ‘Confluences’, was debuted. “Confluences” is a new site-specific sound experience created by internationally recognized artists and Ucross Fellows Teri Rueb and Laurids Sonne was debuted.Rueb explained where the name originated. Source: ‘Confluences’, a Ucross Sound Walk, Available June 6 – Sheridan Media
•Hikers can finally walk the U.S. side of the Chilkoot Trail. But what happens at the border?
Much of the U.S. side of the trail has seen long closures due to the pandemic and flood damage. Source: Hikers can finally walk the U.S. side of the Chilkoot Trail. But what happens at the border?
•Land Snorkeling? Townsizing? A User’s Guide to the Latest Travel Lingo. – The New York Times
Here are eight terms, some brand-new, others recently resurfaced, that match today’s travel trends. Source: Land Snorkeling? Townsizing? A User’s Guide to the Latest Travel Lingo. – The New York Times
Reykjavik City Murals and Street Art Travel Guide | Guide to Iceland
Discover the unexpected canvas of Reykjavik city murals and street art, a testament to the city’s creative spirit. Found throughout diverse neighborhoods, these street- Source: Reykjavik City Murals and Street Art Travel Guide | Guide to Iceland
•Malta to host the General Assembly of Camino Europa Compostela
Malta will host the Camino Europa Compostela Assembly, uniting European pilgrims to explore faith and modern pilgrimage from May 19–26. Source: Malta to host the General Assembly of Camino Europa Compostela
•13th annual Beer Walk for the Arts supporting St. Joseph’s art mediums | News | kq2.com
(ST. JOSEPH, Mo.) The Harris-Kemper neighborhood hosted the return of the 13th Annual Beer Walk for the Arts this weekend, drawing supporters of the Allied Arts Council and art enthusiasts Source: 13th annual Beer Walk for the Arts supporting St. Joseph’s art mediums | News | kq2.com
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Reviving Art Sprawl
I’ve revived a project from 2022 called Art Sprawl. Head over there an check it out! I’ll be publishing a few pieces each month and playing with different zine designs to accompany each piece. These ones are heavy on interviews, so you’ll get to hear directly from the artists in many cases.
South Shore Camino, Day Two: Mahone Bay to Chester
Today’s walk was somewhat longer than I expected, but every minute was remarkable. The weather—coolish, mostly overcast—was ideal for a 20-mile amble along a rail trail. It was so chilly during the first couple of hours that my hands were cold and my nose was running, but I prefer that to heat exhaustion. Like yesterday, … Continue reading South Shore Camino, Day Two: Mahone Bay to Chester
Ageing Trees in Adolescent Landscapes
This short live mix of text, sound and vocal loops is a creative response to the abstract submitted by Bruce … More
Of gaddhas and ghumna: Women traversing life and landscape in the city
As I journeyed through the city with these women, I had been thinking a lot about landscapes. When the parts of the story no longer seemed to coalesce into a plot, I thought about how incongruous things can hang together in a place, in an atmosphere. And so, I found that the antidote to my own growing vertigo was to join these women on excursions (ghumna) around the city. Though these outings happened infrequently, to go ghumna was a favourite activity of many of the women I spent time with. These women, who hailed from poor, predominantly Muslim neighbourhoods such as Nizamuddin Basti, Okhla, and Jaitpur, spent much time plotting the next opportunity to go ghumna, often concocting elaborate cover-ups for family members.… Continue reading Of gaddhas and ghumna: Women traversing life and landscape in the city
South Shore Camino, Day One:Lunenburg to Mahone Bay
Lunenburg is so pretty, but so is Mahone Bay: colourful frame buildings, bright sky, sunlight on the harbour. Lunenburg has the Bluenose II and other tall ships, and excellent falafel. Mahone Bay might have falafel, too, but I’ll never know, because we’re all eating together tonight at the United Church, where we’re staying. We left … Continue reading South Shore Camino, Day One:Lunenburg to Mahone Bay
Comme un musée des sons, points d’ouÏe
Comme un musée des sons ! Une exposition acoustique à ciel ouvert nous accueille. Des zooms sur des points d’ouïe sont installés. Mais seule l’écoute est vraiment installée. Une installation sonore est bien là, à portée d’oreille, doucement spectaculaire. Un parcours de sites acoustiques nous invite. Un guide, souvent silencieux, nous y conduit. Des récits […]
27. Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Omar El Akkad’s One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This explores a contradiction. On one hand, for 80 years or so, many if not most people, especially Western liberals, have understood that genocide is wrong. Few of us would argue that the slaughter of thousands of human beings is ever acceptable. But, on … Continue reading 27. Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
26. Adrienne Gruber, Monsters, Martyrs, and Marionettes: Essays on Motherhood
Sometimes, I like reading creative nonfiction because I can imagine myself in the story that the author is telling. I don’t have Robert Macfarlane’s physical courage, but even though I would never swim in the ocean in the Outer Hebrides, as he does in The Wild Places, I can imagine doing it—not enjoying it, but … Continue reading 26. Adrienne Gruber, Monsters, Martyrs, and Marionettes: Essays on Motherhood
25. Robert MacFarlane, Is a River Alive?
I’ll admit it: I’m a fan of Robert Macfarlane’s writing. I haven’t read all of his work, but I loved The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot, The Wild Places, and Landmarks. I intend to read Underland this summer. Maybe I should’ve turned to that book before tackling his latest, Is a River Alive?, but … Continue reading 25. Robert MacFarlane, Is a River Alive?