Walking Artists Network

About

The Walking Artists Network (WAN) is an international network dedicated to walking as a critical and artistic practice; it reflects the growth and increased in walking art.[1][2][3] It is based at the University of East London's Centre for Performing Arts Development and contains a network of over 500 members from across the globe, though predominantly based in the United Kingdom.[4]

WAN originated in late 2007 when a small group of artists in central London invited ‘all those who are interested in walking as a critical spatial practice’ to its first meeting.[5] It was further developed in 2011 through a successful Arts and Humanities Research Council bid, which provided funding for international development of the network.[6] This enabled it to open up to a wider membership, develop a website and fund the Footwork research group. WAN currently runs the Step by Step seminar series at the University of East London, bringing together artists and academics to discuss ideas around walking, and maintains an active email discussion community through JISCmail.

In 2014 the Walking Artists Network collaborated with Airspace Gallery in Stoke-on-Trent, to produce The Walking Encyclopaedia (2014) a gallery exhibition and online archive of walking practices that includes more than 150 walking practitioners and artworks. In 2015, a collection of walk suggestions, experiences, techniques and case studies by members of the Walking Artists' Network was published by Triarchy Press with the title Ways to Wander.

Selected Members of the Walking Artists Network

Clare Qualmann (co-founder Walking Artists Network)

Ania Bas (co-founder Walking Reading Group)

Monique Besten

Dillon de Give (co-founder Walk Exchange)

Angela Ellsworth (founder of Museum of Walking)

Deirdre Heddon

Simone Kenyon

Karen McCoy

Blake Morris (co-founder Walk Exchange)

Misha Myers

Morag Rose (founder Loiterers Resistance Movement)

Amy Sharrocks

Phil Smith (mythogeography; founder of Wrights & Sites)

Andrew Stuck (founder of Talking Walking, Rethinking Cities, Museum of Walking)

Cathy Turner (member of Wrights & Sites).

Claudia Zeiske (founder Deveron Arts Walking Institute)

Further Reading

Claire Hind and Clare Qualmann: Ways to Wander: 54 intriguing ideas for different ways to take a walk Triarchy Press, 2015

References

  1. ↑ Heddon, Deirdre; Turner, Cathy (2012-05-01). "Walking Women: Shifting the Tales and Scales of Mobility". Contemporary Theatre Review. 22 (2): 224–236. doi:10.1080/10486801.2012.666741. ISSN 1048-6801.
  2. ↑ Owen, Louise (2013-11-01). "Robert Wilson, Walking (Holkham Estate, 2012)". Contemporary Theatre Review. 23 (4): 568–573. doi:10.1080/10486801.2013.839177. ISSN 1048-6801.
  3. ↑ Doonan, Natalie (2015-03-25). "Techniques of Making Public: The Sensorium Through Eating and Walking". Theatre Research in Canada / Recherches théâtrales au Canada. 36 (1). ISSN 1913-9101.
  4. ↑ "Walking Artists' Network". www.walkingartistsnetwork.org. Retrieved 2016-07-05.
  5. ↑ "History". 2011-03-23. Retrieved 2016-07-23.
  6. ↑ Research Council UK. "Footwork - The Walking Artists Network as Mobile Community". gtr.rcuk.ac.uk. Retrieved 2016-07-05.
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