performing lines & research-creation
Walis Johnson is collaborating with WalkingLab to enact a Red Line Labyrinth. Can an artist intervention translate contested spatial and racial narratives that define the real and imagined landscape of New York? The Red Line Project brings together discursive, often … Read More
“What scaffolds, structures and supports exist for walking-based art and artists?” – Asks Leah Sandals in her article in Canadian Art featuring WalkingLab with interview comments from Stephanie Springgay: The initial impetus for WalkingLab, Springgay says, “was less about increasing visibility” of walking … Read More
Stone Walks on the Bruce Trail was a successful WalkingLab event that convened on the Chedoke to Iroquoia Heights loop trail, a 9-km section of the Radial Trail and Bruce Trails on April 1st, 2017. The event brought together more … Read More
Join WalkingLab on the Bruce Trail in Hamilton, Ontario April 1st, 2017 11am – 3pm (meet @ 10:45) The 3 ½ hour loop trail will be activated by ‘pop up’ lectures and artistic interventions. Presentations by: • Dr. Katherine Wallace, … Read More
WalkingLab was in NYC on a research trip meeting with walking artists and activists. We also had the opportunity to walk to some of the geologic sites highlighted in Elizabeth Ellsworth’s and Jamie Kruse’s (Smudge Studio) book Geologic City: a … Read More
My previous walking work, as an artist, can be split into two groups: the first being the project The City as Written by the City, and secondly collaborative work with Simon Pope – From Unspoken Landscapes, Figures in a Landscape, … Read More
These last two posts for this residency with WalkingLab are going to be thoughts and reflections about Taking an Object for a Walk in terms of some of the concepts that I have been thinking about throughout the project, and … Read More
After 2 months from our collective guerrilla sowing intervention we went back to check what had grown and what had not. One pumpkin. Of all the seeds and seed balls that we had scattered, thrown and smashed only one pumpkin … Read More
