welcome
Welcome to the website of the walking artists network. It’s for everyone who defines themselves as a walking artist, and everyone who is interested in…
Mapping from Australia to Greece with the Heart Maps project, by Amy Tsilemanis
With friends old and new We make our new keys To the maps that we see And the maps that we breathe From Good People Dreaming,…
Walking Recipes for Supergau
I’ve just spent four days at the Supergau festival in Austria; the second edition of a rural arts biennial, that makes a different ‘gau’ (region…
Walking Cappadocia: the town with two names, by Helen Billinghurst
Two days travel: train trips, security checks, two flights, a night in Istanbul, bus journey and two taxi rides. The roads are empty as we…
Drift:Memory|Myth
Lucy Lippard said, “Walking is the prime means by which to experience landscape and place” (Lippard 2007: 42). In summer 2021 I began Drift:Memory|Myth, a…
Walking Home
Rebecca Solnit suggests repetition can be cognitive, ‘as though thoughts and ideas were indeed fixed objects in a landscape one need only know how to…
Walking and Mapping in London and Newport
When you live in a big city, especially if you’re a student in a big city, you tend to see what the evenings or the…
Walking together the Watery Commons: common tools for interdependant artistic research
This September InspiralLondon took a brief dip into the watery commons of the Thames Delta, walking some of the lesser known tributaries and marshlands of…
Moving through sound–by Harry Robert Wilson
Laura Fisher’sGoing Out/Going In is an audio performance for one person at a time, designed to be listened to on headphones during a walk through…
Crossing: Walking as a Migrant
What does walking (as an artform) mean when you’re a migrant? Crossing place, and places, spaces and land, over and over again, each time in…
Her Body Keeps Moving – by Laurie Thornton
‘One gender disturbing message might be – in terms of both identity and place – ‘keep moving!’’ (Doreen Massey) [1] During my studies, I readily…