links to walking projects

[Fereshteh Toosi]

I'm collecting some links to projects that involve walking. Not all of them deal with sustainability, but some do. Here are a couple from today:

NYT - Pounding the Pavement From Up on a Pedestal
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/08/arts/design/08gilmore.html?hp

Trails Project in Seattle, WA
http://www.trailsproject.com/

Maybe you have some more to add?

[bambang pramono]

night walking as ritual, well is not a project but merely traditional annual rituals @my hometown
http://www.joglosemar.co.id/1suro.html

[Fereshteh Toosi]

I don't have a dog, but here's another interesting angle on walking:
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/14/the-best-walking-partner-m...

[Christopher Williams]

I tuned into this work a few years ago, the artist wrote some fantastic posts which i don't think are online any longer. He walked 700kms retracing his family history, seeking connection to both the land and the discovery of his indigenous identity. Is perhaps quite an Australian perspective but i really like what he says in the last paragraph: "I want to be claimed. I want to feel the land with my feet, my body. I want the land to be written on my body, even if it's just the pain in my knees..."

Anyway here is a link to the article: www.newint.org/features/2004/02/01/born-white/


Thanks for sharing

[Perdita Phillips]

Mark wrote a beautiful online blog for Void: Kellerberrin Walking (I was in the same live art event that Mark was in) which as you said is sadly no longer available. He was also interviewed about the same time in realtime: http://www.realtimearts.net/article/74/8156

Christopher Williams said:

I tuned into this work a few years ago, the artist wrote some fantastic posts which i don't think are online any longer. He walked 700kms retracing his family history, seeking connection to both the land and the discovery of his indigenous identity. Is perhaps quite an Australian perspective but i really like what he says in the last paragraph: "I want to be claimed. I want to feel the land with my feet, my body. I want the land to be written on my body, even if it's just the pain in my knees..."
Anyway here is a link to the article: www.newint.org/features/2004/02/01/born-white/ Thanks for sharing

[Fereshteh Toosi]

Here's another one:

sound artist Viv Corringham
http://vivcorringham.org/home

Also, someone mentioned Stephen Laub on the EcoArtSpace Facebook post about David Haley's article. Anyone familiar with his work?

[Fereshteh Toosi]

Marc Abrams dies at 58; walking doctor was a Silver Lake fixture
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-marc-abrams-20100723,0...

[Fereshteh Toosi]

ontological walkscapes

http://www.ontologicalwalkscapes.format.am/text.php?text=t1&ima...
AND
http://www.ontologicalwalkscapes.format.am/text.php?text=t3&ima...

[Fereshteh Toosi]

Bringing together youth from Albania, Kosovo and Montenegro to climb Tri-peak in the Balkans Peace Park, where all 3 countries meet on the summit

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/peaceparkexpeditions/balkans-ex...

[Fereshteh Toosi]

http://www.planetwalker.org/

http://www.walkingtomexico.com/

[Fereshteh Toosi]

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2009/01/04/how_the...

Here is the study:
http://www.designforhealth.net/health/twin_cities_walking.html

... Berman outfitted undergraduates at the University of Michigan with GPS receivers. Some of the students took a stroll in an arboretum, while others walked around the busy streets of downtown Ann Arbor.

The subjects were then run through a battery of psychological tests. People who had walked through the city were in a worse mood and scored significantly lower on a test of attention and working memory, which involved repeating a series of numbers backwards. In fact, just glancing at a photograph of urban scenes led to measurable impairments, at least when compared with pictures of nature.

[Bruce Barber]

For the duration of the Gabrovo workshop Bruce Barber will be measuring his daily walking practice in Halifax Nova Scotia and thinking about carbon capture, a sustainable living and art practice. It's anxiety invoking and soon this will be posted on the events page at www.brucebarber.ca

[Fereshteh Toosi]

You Walk Wrong!
How We're Wrecking Our Feet With Every Step We Take -- New York Magazine
http://nymag.com/health/features/46213/index2.html