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Walking With is a curatorial and pedagogical project that explores walking as a form of artistic inquiry and creative expression.

Web version of project >> www.walkingwith.ca

Walking generates embodied knowledge through encounters with the dynamics of place. We become more of ourselves with each movement. Likewise, as we leave our trace, our presence shapes where we walk. 

Twelve artists were invited to share their insights about how walking informs their practice. The invitation is now extended to you, the listener, to join us as we reflect on the pedagogical potential of walking. How and what do you learn while walking?

Each of the contributing artists has created at least one art work within the region of Tio'tia:ke - Mooniyang - Montréal. As a localized portrayal of contemporary artists who work with various media and expressive forms, Walking With reveals the range of motivations and ruminations that co-exist amongst artists who walk.

All of the artists are also women because, quite simply, their perspectives are compelling. Specifying gender was also a deliberate decision to help infuse the international walking art discourse with a plurality of perspectives. 

The full dissertation text and the audio-visual portraits produced from recordings and still images gathered during the walking interviews are found in the Concordia University database : LINK

In dedication to the inspiring and resonating memory of Andra McCartney,