Walking and Art Residency, Banff, 2007. Includes links to participants and to other walking artists and related sites.

http://walkingandartresidency.pbwiki.com/

 

'Walking as knowing as making - a peripatetic investigation of place'. Includes reading and walking group, and extensive walk art bibliography

http://walkinginplace.org/

 

'Legible London' - new scheme for better pedestrian navigation

http://www.legiblelondon.info/wp01/

 

Andrew Stuck 'Rethinking Cities Ltd' - project for better city living

http://www.rethinkingcities.net/default.asp

 

'Romantic Ribbons' - walks that link romantic spaces and places

http://www.rethinkingcities.net/romanticribbons/

 

Lottie Child: Projects and research include ‘UrbanStreetTraining’and ClimbingClub’ – investigating ways we can relate to the urban environment

http://malinky.org/wikka.php?wakka=HomePage

Climbing Club film:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXd4t-swiZA

 

Anarchitecture – ‘celebrates the misuses, subversions and hijacks of contemporary architecture…and resistance to the corporate occupation of space’. See especially the archive page

http://www.anarchitectureweek.co.uk/

 

Rod Quantock’s ‘Bus’ – ‘I take a group of people, who don’t know where they’re going, to visit people who don’t know we’re coming’

http://www.abc.net.au/tv/enoughrope/transcripts/s1746283.htm#transcriptBody

 

Simon Pope- Currently a Reader in Fine Art at Cardiff School of Art & Design, researching 'walking as a visual art practice’.

http://www.ambulantscience.org/

 

Savage Messiah - Laura Oldfield Ford's zine, drifts and more

http://savagemessiahzine.com/driftstart.html

 

Urban Adventure in Rotterdam – many walks and explorations of obscure and challenging spaces

http://www.xs4all.nl/%7ekazil/index.html

 

‘Urban & Adventurous Artists’ page includes ‘Expeditions’ section that gives chronology of walking related art

http://www.xs4all.nl/%7ekazil/advart02.html

 

Mis-Guides are like no other guides you have ever used before. Rather than telling you where to go and what to see, a Mis-Guide gives you the ways to see your city or environment that no one else has found yet.

http://www.mis-guide.com/

 

Wrights & Sites is a group of artist-researchers with a special relationship to place

http://www.mis-guide.com/ws.html

 

Stalker is a collective subject that engages research and actions within the landscape with particular attention to the areas around the city's margins and forgotten urban space, and abandoned areas or regions under transformation.

http://digilander.libero.it/stalkerlab/tarkowsky/manifesto/manifesting.htm

 

Walk walk walk: an archaeology of the familiar and the forgotten

http://www.walkwalkwalk.org.uk/

 

Artist Clive A Brandon's investigation into the banal, mundane and the everyday as experienced when walking.

http://www.cliveabrandon.co.uk/

 

Viv Corringham is a British vocalist and sound artist, currently based in Minnesota, USA.

http://hometown.aol.co.uk/vivdc/

 

Blog with interesting links to various walking/spatial practice sites

http://criticalspatialpractice.blogspot.com/

 

Website of performance, installation, sound and video artist Melissa Bliss

http://livingcinema.com/

 

Walk, Observe, Reflect, Report - Pedestrian Culture is a portal for place-based research and creative projects, focused primarily on the humble and revolutionary act of walking.

http://www.csulb.edu/~gbach/pedestrianculture.html

 

Glowlab is an independent, Brooklyn-based production studio who produce experimental art/technology projects exploring the nature of cities; curate and present exhibitions and events; and produce Conflux, the annual festival in New York for the creative investigation of urban public space.

http://www.glowlab.com

 

Situationist International archives. The library is fully searchable, and features more texts than ever before. Information on related articles are inked from each text, and biographical blurbs about the authors are just a click away.! http://www.nothingness.org/SI/

 

 

 

Marc Auge Non-Places: Introduction to an anthropology of supermodernity 1995

Ed. Michael Bell & Sze Tsung Leong Slow Space 1998

Walter Benjamin, Ed. Rolf Tiedemann. Trans. Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaughlin The Arcades Project 2002

 

Nicolas Bourriaud Relational Aesthetics 2002

Victor Burgin Some Cities 1996

Francesco Careri Walkscapes - Walking as an aesthetic practice 2002

Michel de Certeau The Practice of Everyday Life 1984

James Clifford Routes: Travel and Translation in the late 20^th Century

Rosalyn Deutsche Evictions: Art and Spatial Politics 1996

Ed. Corinne Diserens Gordon Matta-Clark 2003

Ed. Kari Dahlgren, Kamilah Foreman and Tricia van Eck Universal Experience: Art, Life and the Tourists Eye 2005

Guy Debord, Writing from the Situationist International 1957

Guy Debord, From Situationist Definitions 1958

 

Ed. Donna De Salvo Open Systems: Rethinking Art c. 1970 2005

Ed. Jack Flam Robert Smithson: The Collected Writings 1996

Simon Ford The Situationist International: A Users Guide 2005

Katherine Harmon You Are Here: Personal Geographies and other maps of the Imagination 2004

Stuart Horodner Walk Ways 2002

Nick Kaye Site-specific Art: Performance, place and documentation 2000

Guillermo Kuitca Das Liede von der Erde (The Life of the Earth) Daros Latin America 2006

 

 

Miwon Kwon One place after another: Site-specific art and locational identity 2002

Ed. Suzanne Lacy Mapping the Terrain: New Genre Public Art 1995

Pamela M. Lee Object to be Destroyed: The Work of Gordon Matta-Clark 2001

Henri Lefebvre The Production of Space 1974

Henri Lefebvre Critique of Everyday Life Trans. John Moore 1991

Lucy Lippard The Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicultural Society 1997

 

Richard Long A Walk Across England 1997

Ed. Sylvère Lotringer Félix Guattari: Soft Subversions 1996

 

Christian Phillip Muller Branding the Campus: Art, Architecture, Design, Politics of Identity 2001

Julie H Reiss From Margin to Centre: The Spaces of Installation Art 1999

Sadie Plant The Most Radical Gesture: The Situationist International in a Post Modern age 1992

Simon Sadler The Situationist City 1998

Scott, A.J and E.W. Soja, eds. The City: Los Angeles and Urban Theory at the End of the Twentieth Century. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1996.

W. G. Sebald The Rings of Saturn 2002

Ian Sinclair London Orbital: A Walk around the M25 2002

Edward Soja Postmodern Geographies: The Reassertion of Space in Critical Social Theory. London: Verso Press, 1989.

Edward SojaThirdspace: Journeys to Los Angeles and Other Real-and-Imagined Places. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. 1996.

Edward SojaPostmetropolis: Critical Studies of Cities and Regions. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 2000.

 

Rebecca Solnit Wanderlust: A History of Walking 2006

Ed. Kristine Stiles & Peter Selz Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artists’ Writings 1996

Erika Suderberg Space, Site, Intervention: Situating Installation Art 2000

Eds. Nato Thompson and Gregory Sholette The Interventionists: User’s Manual for the Creative Disruption of Everyday Life 2004

 

Eugenie Tsai Robert Smithson Unearthed: Drawings, Collages, Writings 1991

Ben Tufnell and Andrew Wilson Hamish Fulton: Walking Journey 2002

 

Louise van Swaaij & Jean Klare The Atlas of Experience 1999